Mozilla Firefox Terms Update

You must be mistaken, the Mozilla thing is aimed at helping users.

that's still promoting mozilla/firefox in a way, something they clearly don't want to do anymore

That's a myopic view to take, this hurts users way more than it hurts Mozilla

Mozilla is changing the wording: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...There is still cause for criticism, but if you think Mozilla is worse than Google (Chrome) or Microsoft (Edge), then that’s hard to take seriously.

What motivation does Firefox have to fight for your interests?

Firefox didn't respect me when they sent my data to Cliqz, when they installed Pocket without my permission, when they started showing me ads on my home page, when they remotelly installed a Mr. Robot addon without my permission, and so on. The "Mozilla sides with the user" argument needs to die and be buried already. Mozilla is at best sloppy and at worst as evil as Google is.

A good concern given how firefox/Mozilla was co-opted to some extent

Yeah, Mozilla does some great things for privacy while at the same time pushing all kinds of new problems on Firefox users that have to be carefully disabled on each install. As long as they continue to give us the option to disable all the insecure and privacy violating features they add to Firefox, I'll continue using it. There's nothing better out there right now. but it does make articles (and headlines) like this a real problem.At best we're left to assume that they'r

Interesting to see Mozilla restricting freedom that given their userbase.

To me your comment seems based on a misguided idea of what Mozilla is about. I recommend reading https://civilityandtruth.com/2020/08/13/mozillas-uncertain-f... for some good background.