[nelgaard]

It seems to me that Mozilla is gambling with the privacy of their users. The gamble might be worth it, even though I do not think so.

But even if it somehow was a good gamble, that it not how Free Software projects should work. Free software should prioritize the wishes of users. If a lot of firefox users collectively decided to give up some privacy to avoid loosing more privacy, that is their choice, but that is not what have been happening.

Using this kind of defeatist arguments, there is no end to backdoors and compromises that can be defended.

I would prefer Mozilla to fight in the arms race.

I also wonder: what is the next step? I.e., why would advertizing trust firefox instances. It is tempting to create a fork of Firefox that use and manipulate this API in all kind of ways.