I have all the uBlock lists enabled (social blocking, anti-facebook list, annoyances, etc) and don't notice any breakage or missing content unless I go and look for it explicitly (like blank spaces where the like buttons should've been).
Surprisingly, both Google and Facebook themselves actually seem to work fine (at least they load if I allow them on the firewall, don't have accounts to test thoroughly) so it wouldn't prevent people using the sites themselves, simply block their trash like buttons and similar garbage they polluted the web with.
uBlock origin is a third-party project they don't control so I can't blame them for not including it.
I agree about the analytics and telemetry though.
Well, the web was always like sw development: if it compiles - release it - and let the user test it. Mozilla ( and Chrome and ...) breaks stuff with every release. Yes, your facebook may be perfect but internet is not only google and facebook.
> uBlock origin is a third-party project they don't control so I can't blame them for not including it.
They don't include it because that will hurt they revenue. They are not "free sw" anymore. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend in open source world when a company (Hi Canonical) starts making money by selling user data(legal spyware).
> I agree about the analytics and telemetry though.
Because there are some people here which work in "user data industry".
>This creates some very bad incentives with regard to privacy on the net. Mozilla don't seem to care about this, they just take the money and keep going.
Bad for you. Good for them (for the moment). They (the people who work there) will maybe regret it. But as Stasi or NSA showed there will be no discrimination in the usage of this data.
First off, if they were real about privacy they'd include uBlock Origin by default (and why not HTTPS Everywhere for good measure as well). Their current tracking "protection" is an absolute joke that explicitly whitelists Facebook and Google, the two biggest offenders when it comes to privacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112398
They should also remove Google Analytics from their website, or at least the pages that the browser will automatically load on first use or after an update. While Google claims they have some special relationship with Mozilla regarding this and they won't use the data for any other purposes, it's hard to trust them - Facebook for example used to say that phone numbers would only be used for 2FA and yet somehow they ended up being used for advertising.
They should also make the telemetry opt-in instead of opt-out like it is now. Their current way of doing it might actually be in breach of the GDPR, as any non-essential data collection and processing must be opt-in.