You can't stand up for anything if you don't survive in the marketplace. Mozilla needs a revenue stream. I donated last month. When was the last time that you did?

Not trying to shame you, but developers need to put food on the table and there's nothing wrong with finding a reliable revenue source.

I'm very privacy aware, I don't publish pictures of my son on Facebook, the minimum I tolerate for serious chats is WhatsApp due to having E2E encryption and wishing for Signal or better, I disabled location tracking and ads personalization in Google, I encrypt my backups, I keep my passwords in 1Password, I have a sticker on my laptop's camera, I vote and publicly argue against privacy invading laws.

However DuckDuckGo and Bing are simply unusable for me — it is true that in many cases in order to get the results that you want, you simply have to modify your query, however I discovered that many times it doesn't work. The situation is improving, they keep patching local searches to be barely usable and if you're not feeling pain when doing local searches, then you're probably not living in Europe. But besides local searches, the software development related searches are poor as well.

Not trying to disregard the fine work that DuckDuckGo is doing, I'm glad that it exists, but I could not tolerate it for more than a week, every time I tried, including only a month ago.

Mozilla switching to Yahoo was actually shooting themselves in the foot, because as a matter of fact people want to use Google's search engine because it is superior to everything else.

Firefox is also the best browser if you want to use multiple search engines at the same time. On mobile as well. It's just a freaking default, you can always change it.