Please don't become evil Mozilla...
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2022
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This has already happened since Mozilla sold its soul to the ~~devil~~ Google, part of the telemetry
Well, on the other hand, did you give them the needed cash or donations? It is not like Mozilla employees can live on air and water vapour. And it is not either like Firefox has some Google spyware embedded into the code that you cannot remove.
Firefox is the base for Tor Browser, and that is what it is.
You can make money online without surveillance advertising, it's a very bad habit which put Google and his advertising companies (Alphabet, NEST, etc) in control of the network, making money with the privacy and security of the user. You can opt out of this surveillance, but only to request it directly in Alphabet Inc with your personal data, nice.
But there is no tunnelling of data to Google happening, while you use Firefox? Firefox itself is not giving your data to Google. You can turn off Safebrowsing feature if you like, that is not spyware.