Mozilla did some pretty nefarious things with Firefox as well though, for some marketing campaigns.
Not saying it’s worse, but it may not necessarily be due to Google also being an ad giant, but just corporations being corporations and having the wrong priorities.
That was such a strange choice by Mozilla, I mean the plug-in was specifically for people who play the Mr Robot game. Even after Mozilla force-pushed it to their entire user base players still had to manually enable it to play. If the whole damn thing required manual intervention anyway why didn’t they just put it in the addon store to start with?!
consider going librewolf instead, if your concern is security. I personally use librewolf for most things and brave for the few things that don't work well on firefox in linux (i.e. playing video from my nvr, my realtor website's 3d floor plan walkout, etc). Floccus and bitwarden keep bookmarks and passwords synced between the two so I barely notice which one I am using.
Not saying it’s worse, but it may not necessarily be due to Google also being an ad giant, but just corporations being corporations and having the wrong priorities.