This justification is making me strongly reconsider my browser choice.
Stuff like this just keeps coming up completely souring it’s reputation.
At least anecdotally speaking, they’re shooting themselves in the foot and I’ll put off touching FF for another few months until I forget about this.
Chrome/Chromium/Brave have 10 times the amount of dark patterns. It's sad but the complexity and cruft of browser APIs have created an effective browser duopoly. There are no alternatives for any kind of mainstream usage.
Mozilla could learn from this.
Thanks Brendan.