Couldn't care less about this. Just put out a paid version of Firefox that dedicates this revenue stream exclusively to continued Firefox development and I will happily pay fist fulls of money for it. Seriously, Firefox adds so much value to my life and I'd happily pay for it.
There are economies of scales to centralized cloud hardware and software services and more importantly to centralized information integration that, combined with the relative difficulty of valuing the price of the privacy we sacrifice, make private clusters an unfeasible market outcome. Cloud is inevitable at this point and I really don't think there's any way of getting around it.