IIRC, these preferences tweaks are aimed mostly at users who doesn't approve Mozilla decisions regarding Firefox improvements and guardianship, who prefer having control over browser and who refuse to move to Blink-based browsers for various reasons (main reason would be supporting Google dominant position). File was created out of user comments contribution on Martin Brinkmann's gHacks news blog.
It's not just about anti-fingerprinting or privacy.
First of all, these were my tweaks, which I shared with ghacks.net. Martin Brinkmann from ghacks.net published the first draft (the commentators at ghacks inspired me to clean it up etc). It has always been my settings and pushed as a template. Over the next few years it got updated with changes as Firefox changed, and as the information was refined, and things added, removed, changed. Some changes came from suggestions by commentators.
THEN, I moved it to GitHub (over two years ago) where it has essentially been me and earthlng driving the whole thing.
It has never been anything about Mozilla's direction or guardianship etc. It is solely focused on providing information on privacy, security, anti-tracking, anti-fingerprinting etc. It's just that because it is so comprehensive, that it is used by what I can only call "nutcases" that scream malware, spying, and other BS, to promote their causes and scream LOOK: telemetry etc. I am not one of those guys.
I personally have no issues with telemetry, I trust Firefox, and as long as it allows me to continue to tweak and be help me be more private, anonymous, etc, then I'm a happy camper. Do I care about things like Mr Robot or Cliqz, or other eseentially inconsequential things - no. Every company makes mistakes, as long as they learn from them. I don't care if they rearrange the about:config page as they strip out the last of the XUL. I don't care unless it's to do with our primary goals. I even ban github accounts from my repo who start spouting this sort of carry on. And I actively have to ASK to get myself removed from utter rubbish like Librefox, which took all our hard work (it's free, no issue with that) and bastardized it into an absolute mess. I had to get my name removed from that, and post at ghacks.net that I was not involved with it. It still proudly refers to MY repo.
It IS just about anti-fingerprinting, privacy, anti-tracking, security and anonymity.
And it was created out of me (and earthlng), not ghacks. On a side note: I basically stopped doing anything at ghacks.net over a year ago: the negative commentators and anti-firefox brigade just made me shun the place. I'm sure they're just a super tiny minority, but man, did they find a place to congregate. I'm not ones of those guys!
It's not just about anti-fingerprinting or privacy.