[YokoZar]

Ubuntu, meanwhile, was willing to accept this tradeoff and distribute blessed Firefox, as Ubuntu also has trademarks that downstream modifiers (like Mint) need to remove.

It would be nice if it was easy to remove said trademarks by something as simple as uninstalling a package, however unfortunately most marks are spread throughout the archive.

[nitrogen]

I thought there used to be such a package called firefox-branding that would turn Firefox into IceWeasel if removed?

[YokoZar]

At some point, yes, but the Ubuntu marks are still spread throughout dozens of different packages.