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> How do you then explain that's what Firefox has done all the way up until now?

Google is historically the largest financial contributor to Mozilla (paying for spot as default search engine) and thus has always had leverage on what they do with FF.

There were a few years there where Moz flexed on google by making Yahoo the default, but then switched back to Google last year. My guess is they had to show google they were willing to go elsewhere in order to regain some of their autonomy, which is why it's only in the last couple of years that FF has been willing to add default customer privacy features despite directly hurting FB/Google's ability to track users.