i really have to agree!
it’s more than ridiculous, how gael and some others here in this forum argue against mozilla and some other important players in the open source field, which in fact realize/d much more essential tools and valuable free software solutions than /e/.
this kind of political resp. social community related attitude and lack in solidarity concerning similar open source projects reminds me, that we should perhaps spend more attention on the dangers of actually gathered data and software in the hand of the /e/ maintainers and their servers. sure, they do not utilize old fashioned cookies or other well known tracking mechanism, but maybe they are nerveless able to identify, surveil and to some degree control a rather interesting ‘critical’ segment of actual mobile device users and phone software just by clever abuse of social engineering strategies, a nice looking sympathetic facade and lots of PR efforts, and little bit of nearly negligibly development work to implement cosmetic modifications in already existing open source software.
but i already expressed some of this objections and rectification in another thread about security warnings resp. false positives related to mobile firefox browsers.