I am a Firefox user, and I think it better than the alternatives I'm familiar with, and I think I at least partially know what they are talking about?
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.
I just never look a the tabs it opens after an update. Unfortunately that's the exception the ad blockers can't catch, but at least it's just one click every 30 days or so.
It’s every time I open Firefox, which seems to be every few days.
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.
> 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
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.
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.