Even if it is, that kind of language doesn't help. These are all people you're talking about, trying their best to do a job they care about. Nothing gets better by your being a jerk.
I would not take that as a given for Mozilla's upper management. Many of their decisions seem to ignore what users want in deference to Google or other motivations.
Wether there is a formalized contract or not Mozilla makes choicses in the interest of Google over (especially power) users all the time. And in general its absurd to think that taking money (not to mention almost your entire funding) from someone isn't going to make you biased towards that person. As has been pointed out many times in discussions about this, you don't need any explicit deals for conflicts of interest to emerge. Having the wealth of Mozilla's leadership depend on Google's good graces is going to encourage them to make decisions that will keep Google happy.
Attacking users users that bring up grievances is not going to help your case here.
> There are some things Mozilla is disallowed from doing to Google Search results that Firefox displays, but that's basically it.
What exactly are those things? Is that why Firefox does not come with ad blocking by default?
What choices did they make in Google's interest?
Power users aren't happy that Firefox has been doing nothing but trailing Chrome for years, actively making the browser worse for power users by weakening extensions, baking ads into the browser, wilfully refusing to permit opt-out of telemetry, and lying about revenue-sharing with Pocket. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]
Mozilla gave its CEO a raise of over $1m/year, from a starting point that was already over $1m/year, at a time when Firefox was losing usage share, while laying off engineers. Mozilla did all this while congratulating itself for putting people before profits! [7][8][9][10]
I still use Firefox as my primary desktop browser, and I really want to like Mozilla, but here we are.
(As an aside, I see Pocket is finally going to be made Free and Open Source Software, which is good news. [11])
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841567
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144137
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391659
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754740
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616740
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680925
[6] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/mozilla-looks-to-its-next-...
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569464
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723971
[9] https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...
