They are held to a higher standard because the alternative Chrome is as bad as it gets in terms of usability and utilizing sneaky ways to subvert privacy. The s

They are held to a higher standard because the alternative Chrome is as bad as it gets in terms of usability and utilizing sneaky ways to subvert privacy. The sneakiness is not necessarily malicious - it is driven by Google's revenue model. Firefox remains configurable and privacy-enabling to a large extent, but it is becoming harder and harder, especially for non-technical folks, to realize that default Firefox settings are not necessarily user or privacy friendly. See the ruckus last year about defaulting to Cloudflare's DNS servers.