Have you ever contributed to Firefox?

Open source is a multiplayer game.

You don’t understand business. Your own reaction is the best display for why they should not and did not implement this as a one-time question just as you proposed. As you proposed, notably, so that you have the easiest possible way to disregard it.

They need to earn money to pay developers. The Google deal isn’t going to hold forever and has been a pain point for a long time.