We don’t live in a perfect world, and the priority should be preventing Google from having complete control over the internet. If you have any better ideas for how to do that, please let us know.

So what alternative do you suggest?

Is a national park "tarnished", if funded with tax money coming from a highly-polluting industry...?

As long as FF takes Google money, it's less money going to fund anti-web activities.

> Is a national park "tarnished", if funded with tax money coming from a highly-polluting industry...?

The difference is the majority of national parks funding might not come from highly-pollting industry. Mozilla corp would not survive for long without Google's bribes.

Maybe, maybe they'd step up their fundraising instead.

What do you propose as the alternative? And do you have any reason to believe FF is making meaningful decisions based on coercion from Google?

Mozilla has to keep paying the bills. I expect most people would be upset if they starting charging for the browser or selling ads, and I frequently see complaints when they focus on any products other than FF and MDN. If private donations won't cut it and sponsorships tarnish their standing, what's left?