[BrendanEich]

First point, to separate concerns.

I am among the founders of Mozilla, and I'll speak only about what is public and happened or at least started while I was there:

1. We rejected 3rd party cookie blocking patches, three times. Safari has had a blocker from birth.

2. We got too dependent on Google revenue shares while Google turned from search (1st party ads) to full surveillance (1st and 3rd) superpower.

3. Tracking protection work that started while I was there was delayed for years, then allowed only in private tabs, then a pref was added. Now, after Safari and Brave have taken the lead, Mozilla is turning on tracking protection in some form by default (which is good).

The claim that Mozilla is the only organization users can truly trust for privacy is belied by these facts.

[andreasgal]

I tried my best to get the tracking protection patch shipped after you left. There were no realistic technical concerns with it. The entire engineering team wanted to enable it. The patch was ready for prime time. I was overruled for non-technical reasons. I left not too long after.