They keep google as default to get that google money. This money allows the foundation to keep functioning. When you have a company to run, you find that ideals about human liberty doesn’t feed your workers families or keep them working. So then your alternatives are to find the money fast, or shut up shop. Im sure that if there were other viable sources of income, Mozilla wouldn’t need to have to suckle on the google teat.

I’d rather have a firefox I can configure to be as private as possible rather than no firefox.