I'm assuming here that the changes are GDPR compliant (given the large army of lawyers working for Google).

If they are, all this brouhaha is from the technophile echo chamber of opinions. The average joe gives a rat's ass for this, as evident from all the non-noise coming out of the regular world. Techonopiles have made an art of outrage - typing on their $3000 laptop or $1300 iPhones built by slave-grinded employees toiling 16 hour days in China - NO HN COMMENTING ALLOWED AT WORK FOR THEM, BTW

Please go use FF & pretend to have privacy online or be better humans. Mozilla - the world leader in disappearing money [1]. Does it really take $225M to build & maintain the quantum browser? And why $135M for 'marketing'?

Mozilla 2016 revenues: $520M

Mozila 2016 R&D: $225M

Mozilla marketing: $135M

Remaining $160M - ???

[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Au...