that's so tone-deaf from mozilla... hello? anyone behind the driving wheel there? what are your priorities? trying to win the game of hypocrisy? seriously, this is a great display of dishonesty at the org level.
While agree that the surface-level optics aren't ideal, and Mozilla sucks at communicating those things, I believe people often take a to categorical black-white stance on this.
I have no idea why they would. Google is a data collection company. That's their entire job. There are zero means of implementing oversight to make sure they uphold their end.
Our industry and technology has gotten pretty twisted. Getting an understanding of the extent of the bloated mess, shoveling our way up for air, shaking up practices that have become automatic, and cleaning up all the corners that are dirty... is going to take time.
that's why i said "dishonesty at the org level". i don't think there's any one particular person in mozilla at the prenda law-level of crookedness, but what exactly is their company culture around privacy that they end up casually slipping a surveillance tool into a web page that's ostensibly against surveillance?
Firefox already ships with telemetry enabled by default, superfluous closed source components (pocket) and a remote control mechanism which Mozilla has already abused "for fun" (remember that Mr Robot thing?).
Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.