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A significant fraction of Mozilla's funding comes from google paying to make google the default. I am not sure what the dollar value of this agreement was, but it was a sizable fraction of a billion dollars a year last I checked.

Google pays Mozilla to have Google as default search. If DDG comes with hefty sum to Mozilla - they'll change it.

Because Google pays them to do it and essentially to a large extent sponsors Firefox's development. Would you rather have Firefox die due to lack of funding?

google pays firefox for it