Or maybe the premise that Mozilla is beholden to Google because of their income stream is false?

It seems like every other month there's a thread complaining about how Mozilla would never really do anything against Google's interests because of their income stream, and then every other month in between those rant threads Mozilla launches some new tracking protection [0] or privacy initiative directed specifically against Google.

[0] https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185