Because there was a privacy policy it's hard to understand how that could be a mistake. The insinuation is the reviewer was not acting in hood faith.
Lot of people in this thread not familiar with Hanlon's razor..
Obviously this could all just be incompetence. It's just a convenient excuse to do some more Mozilla-bashing, (lack of) facts be damned.
Not that any of this excuses the experience Gorhill had, of course.
Which brings us to: It's unclear why the author of the article decided that the reviewer was not acting in good faith.