To double reply You said, "I have a reason to believe that it is a company wanting something beyond what many or most of the users would prefer." You have not

To double reply You said, "I have a reason to believe that it is a company wanting something beyond what many or most of the users would prefer." You have not articulated any reason. Just an unsupported conclusion, and then quickly switched to saying that preferences could be ignored. (which clearly your preference is ignored), while then trying to throw a bomb saying that the very real (and documented!) benefits that telemetry provides to all users, aren't actually some distraction. State the nefarious secret reason you believe Mozilla has rather bland anonymous data, and what threat that identifying a CPU and operating system provides. And for the record, my quip about Mozilla not being a company, was a facetious remark about how poorly managed Mozilla is, and the fact that was originally a nonprofit, but now has this a very unusual architecture of being for-profit corporation that is wholly owned by a nonprofit foundation, due to US tax laws dictating that a minimum percentage of the revenue must come from donation, and the search deals were way out stripping that, and B-corps didn't exist when it was founded.