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TL;DR: Mozilla has a new CEO and a new mission: transform Firefox into an AI browser. That has run into some snags, as Firefox users don’t seem that interested in AI. Mozilla is forging ahead, utilizing deceptive patterns (previously known as dark patterns) to nag and annoy people into enabling AI features. You can see this in the introduction of Link Previews, an extremely invasive anti-feature that exists solely to push AI into your experience.


The link is not shown in Lemmy for some reason.
Here’s the link: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html
A similar issue happened a while ago: https://lemmy.today/post/44634337
It’s a limitation of Lemmy itself. Either link OR image for a post, not both. And you can put whatever you want in the body.