[jamienicol]

> The plan is clearly to incrementally erode freedom to a final state of dysfunction under the guise of gaslit improvements and false switches.

That's quite the accusation, and completely baseless. about:config was removed from the stable version on android to prevent users breaking their installations. It's interesting you mention privacy.resistFingerprinting, as it alone is the cause of countless bug reports and support tickets from users who don't understand the implications. If you're confident enough to go digging in about:support then you can run beta or install a fork with it enabled. There's no alterior motive.

[tomrod]

The base is the removal of about:config. Whatever got written up into the release notes, it was received by many users as stated above.

Also note that an ulterior motive doesn't need to exist for the path towards centralized, user-hostile control to happen. It starts with "the developer knows better what the user wants than the user themselves" sort of attitudes.

[intelMgmntEnema]

Trying to reinforce my comment?

Removing a whole toolset of configurability because one tool was causing trivial issues is practical? And you have evidence of jubilant hordes prostrating themselves in gratitude for this benevolence? Where are they? Did they all get disappeared along with this post?

This mentality goes down well-known paths.

Autoplay forever, whether anyone wants it or not!