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... Uh... This doesn't seem that objectionable. It's a bunch of targeted fixes to websites, I imagine every browser does it in some form. Firefox at least allows you to turn it off if for some reason you wanted to.
BTW, I think Proton (for playing games) does this as well.
Ehhh... I think a bigger effect on FF market share statistics is probably all those privacy addons and settings everyone is using.
Windows does this as well. No doubt the same for macOS.