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wtf Mozilla, why are you making me stop using you?

As if there was any serious alternative that wasn't much worse.

I mean if they both are going off the deep end for tracking chrome is faster and a ton of developers seem to only care if it works on chrome....

Well, Firefox' tracking is usually meant for determining things like where did the installer came from and collecting feature usage data, while Google's is all about building marketing profiles to sell targeted ads. You decide how bad each of them is.

How is it making you stop using it?

Like, people can’t see the difference between “telemetry” done by supermarkets by counting an approximate number of visitors vs the full-on knowing your childhood best-friends’ secret crush on you. There is eons of difference between the two.

It's the exact same thing. Doesn't matter why you're doing something wrong. The ends still don't justify the means.

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