But you can get alternatives which have the telemetry removed. Like VSCodium and some Firefox forks. And instead of every distro needing to do those patches themselves, they can share the effort.
Maintaining a firefox fork is a much bigger job than putting `--with-unsigned-addon-scopes=app --allow-addon-sideload` in the package build script.
Distros already share effort implicitly because maintainers of distro X often look at what distro Y is doing for that package. Also users compare distros frequently and will tell the maintainer of distro X that the same thing works with distro Y.
Distros already share effort implicitly because maintainers of distro X often look at what distro Y is doing for that package. Also users compare distros frequently and will tell the maintainer of distro X that the same thing works with distro Y.