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This is a pretty bad argument. It conflates product telemetry with ad telemetry, includes irrelevant anecdotes, and erroneously claims that the people against the Firefox change are “demanding something or someone never grow or attempt or evolve or change”, which is such an absurd take that it makes me question if the whole argument is in bad faith. Users weren’t out there en masse rallying against initiatives like Firefox Quantum or Servo. No one is demanding Firefox doesn’t change, they’re complaining about a change they believe to be bad.
Respectfully, it's a reaction to real comments and opinions that all telemetry is bad, period, and to the continual vocal pushback to virtually any change. No, not everyone says those things, but people do say them. It's also pushback on the idea that there's some nefarious collusion occurring to subvert user privacy; this is a long-term play to try to fundamentally improve user privacy over the status quo, and to give useful arguments and weapons to regulators to crack down on tracking. If you think it can be done better, don't argue here, show up in the standards meetings/issues/repos and make your case. But sitting back and doing nothing is just accepting the crazy level of tracking that occurs now.