In contrast, Linux won’t stop you if you try to use a command that deletes every file on your PC (“sudo rm -rf /”).

Actually AFAIK it will stop that specific command nowadays. I don’t have a VM handy to test, but without the “–no-preserve-root” flag it should give an error.

(Don’t actually run that command on a machine you care about, I’m only 80% confident.)

Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they’re a follower not a leader.

No six months to a year is probably about right. They’ll have enough data by then to say “most people don’t turn it off” because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.

Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can’t even begin to guess.

Plus, while I can’t predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn’t like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it’s just the current fad.