I have a hard time taking Mozilla serious in this case.
If Mozilla where really against the NSA spying they would all their users to easily remove any Google ( and other third party ) services from Firefox. I understand why they won't, it would mean taking a financial hit, if I understand they business model.
It's not that it is "Googles fault", they are force to work with the NSA. However having services from a company known to work with the NSA so deeply embedded into your product weakness the impact of your resistance to the NSA surveillance program.
Mozilla can do more good taking Google's money and using it to fund decentralization and anti-surveillance features. They have enough market share and clout to bring things to the mass market.
I would most like to see them champion putting in a DHT service in Firefox, where decentralized networks can be "registered". The user just needs to confirm that they want their browser to function as a regular node or supernode for service X, Y and Z and they are now serving information for networks X, Y and Z everywhere. A generic DHT running everywhere that any network requiring decentralized discover can be used for a Skype-like WebRTC directory, torrents decentralization, DNS alternative, etc.
If Mozilla where really against the NSA spying they would all their users to easily remove any Google ( and other third party ) services from Firefox. I understand why they won't, it would mean taking a financial hit, if I understand they business model.
It's not that it is "Googles fault", they are force to work with the NSA. However having services from a company known to work with the NSA so deeply embedded into your product weakness the impact of your resistance to the NSA surveillance program.