Yikes. Unless Mozilla sees a notable increase of users switching from Chrome to Firefox, our beloved privacy-first browser may lose support on government and commercial websites, further cementing Google's death grip on web standards. https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/
Firefox on the brink?

The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.

Bryce Wray
@thegardendude while i agree with the notion that firefox losing popularity is worrying, calling it privacy first is silly. it's unfortunately very far from that. at this point, it's essentially just "not chromium"
@thegardendude

telemetry enabled by default
google as default search engine

their entire ai bullshit and using your data for it, see for example https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/111562605874551611

firefox sending address bar keystrokes and more info to mozilla https://www.howtogeek.com/760425/firefox-now-sends-your-address-bar-keystrokes-to-mozilla/