> I am not trying to defend Mozilla doing this

Well, you kind of are though.

> I wish they had just done this with a very clear up front opt in

If a local model is not realistic, then this should not have even been an in-your-face opt-in, but at most some add-on.

Of course, their telemetry isn't even opt-out, so even the opt-out for the Mistral thing is kind of disingenuous on their part, since they get a bunch of information from us in other ways.

(sigh) Ah, Mozilla has gone down such a dark path over the years. Too bad.