https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
"Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit"
Ooops.
When in fact, Mozilla was super duper clear in the blog about the privacy implications of this experiment. And in the past two years, they have been focusing more and more on the privacy angle.
At the moment, both Safari and Mozilla look to me to be leading in privacy.
And unless the entire leadership of the Mozilla Corporation has been replaced since then (a wet dream of mine) that blog entry is relevant, since they've done it and they could do it again.
Cliqz is building a European, independent privacy-oriented search engine. This seems a worthy reason to me, especially with the complete and total transparency here. And in any case, the experiment has ended.
I still maintain your comments are misleading, by leaving out the context.
Mozilla burned a big chunk of reputation when they fucked that up, as evidenced by this thread.
Offhand, I know the CEO, COO, CPO, and CFO have left over the last couple years.