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Yes. Just like with the Audacity kerfuffle some time ago, it's not a problem for distro packages, only when you get your binaries from upstream.

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Which is what 95% of users would do though.. the average user will use Windows or Mac and has never heard of Chocolatey. Firefox is not in the Mac app store and I guess not on Windows either.

Windows actually knows about the Firefox installer tracker and blocks it: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-edge-blocks-firefox...

It is on the Windows Store.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/mozilla-firefox-browser/9n...

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