- "in the absence of alternatives, there are enormous economic incentives for advertisers to try to bypass these countermeasures, leading to a perpetual arms race that we may not win"
It's in the user's interest to attempt to appease the spammers? It's in the user's interest to voluntarily hand over some personal, private information about themselves, to commercial stalkers, in hopes that–what–satiates the data harvesters?
Is this Mozilla's position?
Mozilla's position is, instead of the arms race to hide/identify traffic, if the browser builds in a way to measure conversions that doesn't rely giving up your identity then advertisers have less need of getting at your identity through other means. (And they haven't said this, but I assume the next step is, if advertisers can measure conversions then it becomes easier to envision legal countermeasures in the form of regulation)
Seriously, they don't deserve peoples' support.
Software vendors seem to think that they're entitled to this information because they really want it, but they're wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry
Telemetry’s incompatibility with privacy is self-evident.
And why would firefox users care about advertisers blocking firefox? Oh noes, ads aren’t showing up in my browser!
Who has been fighting the advertisers? Mozilla? No, they haven't even included a basic ad blocker with FF, only some lackluster "tracking protection" that barely anyone is going to enable (while implementing whatever new privacy leaks Google proposes). If the advertisers have won any fights it is only because Mozilla hasn't even bothered to show up.