I hate that Firefox's privacy is held to a standard so high that's almost at a level of a conspiracy theory. As if Mozilla had some nefarious business in selling your captive portal DNS queries (so much private data in that IP address that isn't even yours!), but don't mind that trillion-dollar tracking-based ad network of the competitor.

Mozilla is dragged for using Google Safe Browsing service and a limited version of Google Analytics, but the browser by maker of these services is the author's choice.

When Firefox checks for updates that's Spyware Phoning Home, while the author of this complaint is probably logged in to Chrome with their real name and a verified phone number.