How many times do I need to say it before developers understand it.

If you have opt-out telemetry/analytics and your software targets people who treat digital privacy as a personality trait, those people are going to ignore any of the properties of your system and any justification of its value and call your software spyware.

@BrodieOnLinux I stopped using Firefox years ago, I used brave. I know it's chromium based, but it's brave, not Google, and it's brave, not Mozilla. If there were other alternatives worthy, I'd try them, but there aren't. I used librewolf a few times, but brave is what I settled on.