>- google scam site checker, phone-home component for every site you visit
I don't really like it either, but that's not how it works. Firefox downloads an updated list of "non-safe" sites from Google every 30 minutes or so, and check sites against the local copy. A site get sent to Google only if there is a match in the local copy, to check that it's still "blacklisted"
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
>- google services (the things responsible for ads no less) just so you can stream videos on android (can't even build firefox without including that SDK)
It's for casting videos to a Chromecast, not for streaming videos. It seems to be possible to build Firefox without it, F-Droid does so: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=fennec&fdid=...
>- adobe binary blob for DRM on netflix. (who even uses netflix on the browser?)
I don't like it neither, but I think a small blob for DRM is better than a whole closed addon. It's awful that it got pushed to every installation tho, instead of displaying a "download" button on Netflix and similar sites.
As for your question, it seems that tons of people do so.
I don't really like it either, but that's not how it works. Firefox downloads an updated list of "non-safe" sites from Google every 30 minutes or so, and check sites against the local copy. A site get sent to Google only if there is a match in the local copy, to check that it's still "blacklisted"
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
>- google services (the things responsible for ads no less) just so you can stream videos on android (can't even build firefox without including that SDK)
It's for casting videos to a Chromecast, not for streaming videos. It seems to be possible to build Firefox without it, F-Droid does so: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=fennec&fdid=...
>- adobe binary blob for DRM on netflix. (who even uses netflix on the browser?)
I don't like it neither, but I think a small blob for DRM is better than a whole closed addon. It's awful that it got pushed to every installation tho, instead of displaying a "download" button on Netflix and similar sites.
As for your question, it seems that tons of people do so.