I agree with you in that I don't like it - I was just providing some more information on the issue, from presumably the same source you made your comment from.

I agree with you in that I don't like it - I was just providing some more information on the issue, from presumably the same source you made your comment from. In terms of a Debian firefox etc, I would worry about two things: 1. You'd be fragmenting the non-corporate* browser market, weakening the good that can come of that. Mozilla are invited to the table at browser discussions, Debzilla probably won't be. 2. You're reliant on the upstream from Mozilla, so you're still needing them to be big enough to continue to generate the base software the fork is coming off. I don't consider Mozilla to be a bad actor and in fact like them a lot (although you may feel differently) however they have done multiple anti-user actions I don't agree with (this would be one of the lesser ones). How are firefox design choices steered? Is it just at the whim of the corporation? If not, what would be the best way to become politically active in steering design choices like these in a pro-privacy pro-user direction? It seems like there are enough people with a similar sentiment on Hacker News to provide political weight to these issues. *yes, strictly speaking Mozilla are corporate but I would say there are appreciable differences between them and Google, Microsoft, etc