Mozilla’s AI Shake to Summarize is announcing itself via a blue dot in the menu and a pop-up when you visit articles. Neither the popup, the confirmation dialog, nor the new menu item mention AI.
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is there any successful case of the “shake your device” interaction? seems like a bad ux, and i don’t know of any app or operating system which uses it.
seems like a bad ux
I’d guess at least someone at Mozilla is aware of that, but accidentally triggering Ai features looks mostly the same on telemetry as purposefully triggering Ai.
So think of that what you will.
I really miss the shake for flashlight feature androids used to have. But I can’t think of another iteration that makes sense.
I even liked the twist to launch the camera thing.
Are you sure it was all androids and not just Moto? I know my past two Motos + my current one have that (even on Lineage), but I haven’t seen it on any other device/ROM.
And if anyone wonders why I’m not raging about those feature: They’re opt-in, actually only trigger when intended (in my experience), and at least the flashlight thing is non-invasive.
I think it was probably Moto first and then came to CyanogenMod (pre-Lineage days 😛) for other devices
Can’t say I am sure. I was partial to the moto X and had both iterations of it. I believe I was also able to implement it on the pixel 1 with an app. But it’s been a long time.
Still have both on Moto.
I thought that’s only a Moto thing?
I just assumed it might have been ‘adopted’ by Oppo, Redmi, or Huawei already.
Not that I’ve seen ever since I have to stop using my moto z play
I find it effective for ‘feedback’ (bug reports/feature requests) sometimes because it can automatically screenshot parts of the app that wouldn’t typically have a UI to send feedback on it, for example a menu, where a feedback option listed in the menu would always capture what’s behind the menu instead.
Of course it would be even easier if I could just upload screenshots I manually took myself, but Google hates that idea apparently.
Apple is very up their ass about it. It’s fucking annoying. I was just trying TO SET THAT FUCKING IPAD DOWN. I’M NOT RAGING BECAUSE OF THE APP ITSELF, BUT I’M NOW RAGING BECAUSE I HAVE TO DISMISS THAT FUCKING ANNOYING, USELESS AND NON-DISABLEABLE PROMPT TO GIVE FEEDBACK YOU FUCKING SONS OF BITCHES. Seriously, whoever thought physical motion that is easily triggered by accident should invoke a pop-up action should be shot. In the groin. Then a couple of Marsellus Wallace’s hard, pipe-hittin’ neighbours, who’ll go to work on them with a pair of pliers and a blow torch, shall be summoned to go medieval on their ass.
Which feature are you referring to? I’m only aware of Shake to Undo which you can disable: https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-shake-to-undo-on-iphone
Besides Firefox? There’s the bug report feature in Matrix, where shaking is interpreted as a sign of frustration
Ah yes, the two possible choices “Yes” and “Not now”. I know three other things that give you the same options: rapists, viruses, and politicians
So, what browser do people prefer on Android?
Currently using IronFox, Similar to LibreWolf in it has all the spyware removed and some extra privacy features on by default.
For something FF based? Waterfox is pretty good these days. If you’re looking for other options, the FFUpdater app provides a slough of them in categories (from “good for privacy” to “better than Chrome”)
Firefox
