You and everyone else that’s using Firefox. It’s one of the dumbest “features” that’s ever been added to Firefox and that’s quite an accomplishment considering the long history of adding stupid features nobody asked for.

and why old all platforms need consistent server-side validation across APIs, account services, and databases

FTFY.

Regular search engines have feedback mechanisms that limit how effective that is. The click through and bounce rate are used to adjust rankings and as more and more people look at the fake info and then ignore it it will naturally fall out of the top results and get buried. LLMs though don’t have that feedback, once something is ingested and baked into the model it’s there forever. The fake info doesn’t need to look believable enough to fool a human, just self consistent enough to fool an LLM with its tiny context window.