I doubt people on the trenches were blatantly in on it. But I gave my views on the outcome. Investigate that and see the pattern.
Well, that's a cute line of defense, but pretty obvious if hand-waving if you ask me. "You're too low on the ladder to know what I'm talking about."
You're the one who accuses Mozilla and Google, of different things, sure, but fairly important things anyway.
The burden of proof lies with you. Not us. It is not up to us to "find the pattern."
Not that I disagree with you on the fact that Mozilla seems much better off, post-Google.
I remember, as a volunteer, debating some privacy issue with a Google dev in Bugzilla. They made some crack about looking a gift horse in the mouth, but the discussion was out in the open. I don't recall evidence that Google was influencing Firefox improperly, but OTOH absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ...