I read the git history changes and while I generally think it’s somewhat of a nothing burger for savvy users, it is a scummy move that alienates their core user base at a moment in time where they were best positioned to expand their user base.

99% are already not using Firefox 😅. I assume a larger portion of the Firefox user base is technically savvy.

How would this work exactly? What keeps me from pieholing any telemetry or data Firefox tries reporting back to Mozilla?

Nobody is saying it would solve the problem but it might make me feel a little better