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Another megacorp forking Chromium doesn't really help solve thee problem. We need a browser that's an actual community driven open source project. Microsoft is unlikely to have problems with features harmful to users such as tracking or disabling adblocker APIs because that sort of thing is perfectly compatible with their business model.
The entity maintaining the browser has to be fundamentally non-commerical. Mozilla is not perfect, but it's the closest we have at the moment.
The reason Google backtracked is precisely because there is a viable alternative available, and if they made this change then we'd see droves of people moving to FF. In a world where Chromium is the only game in town they can push these kinds of changes through much easier.
Gecko is no more "community driven" than chromium. Mozilla has just as much control over it. You could argue that Mozilla is better company, but that's a separate argument.
Mozilla is fundamentally a non profit foundation. It's not perfect, but it's not remotely comparable to commercial companies like Google and Microsoft that have a clear conflict of interest. I would personally prefer if Firefox was a true community effort, but having it as imperfect as it may be is still vastly better than not.