Firefox does not if you opt out of telemetry
Hamburger Menu > Settings
Privacy & Security tab on the left
Scroll down to the Firefox Data Collection and Use section (2nd section from bottom)
Uncheck all of the boxes in this section
What's weird is that some of your comments aren't dead, and typically shadowbanned users have all of their comments auto-marked as dead. It's possible those got vouches though.
And don’t get me started on Firefox nagging people to use Mozilla VPN, and their push towards DNS over HTTPS, as in “Trust me dude, I want your logins, your passwords, your DNS and your VPN, and pinky swear I’m just a charity with benevolent intentions, Google just gives us money for… stuff.”
I think the "opens tabs all the time telling you how much Big Browser care about your privacy" is primarily referring to the tabs that are sometimes opened when you restart the browser for the first time since a new update has been installed, telling you the sort of stuff that is in the new update, or sometimes talking about other projects they have.
Or like, "hey, try colors" or whatever.
I disagree with their insinuation that the push of their VPN etc. is for a nefarious purpose due to their receiving some funding from Google.
We’re in the paradox that it is possible to claim there is no ad on a browser because you don’t look at them when they appear. Similarly, people who are satisfied with a government stance will see no problem in violently repressing opposition. Defects only appear when you are on the other side.
But they do appear, and they educate the users such as my parents into creating a Firefox account or assuming that Firefox equals privacy, which is clearly not the case.
I didn't make that claim. I just said I immediately close them and don't mind them much because I basically only restart the browser when I reboot the PC (so about once a month because after that all kinds of bugs start to appear).
Of course I see them as problem, I assumed that was obvious from the rest of my comment.
Agree that Mozilla building independent sources of revenue is a good thing.