[drdaeman]

Or their legal team is incompetent. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[gloxkiqcza]

If there’s a financial incentive involved I think it’s perfectly reasonable to incline towards malice.

[wtallis]

Mozilla's legal team is probably competent, but working under unreasonable constraints where their initial advice to the effect of "don't spy on your users" has been rejected and now they need to find a way to shield Mozilla from legal consequences of a decision that their users won't like.

[therealpygon]

Or, “Lawyers will lawyer.” That said, there is room for both.