Yes that funding is largely to have Google Search the default on Firefox (like I think Googler also pays Apple for the same reason). But it is easy to switch search engines and I use my own hosted SearXNG as my search engine on Firefox.

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I'm using searxng from my own server as well, if yacy would work well though would be great alternative. Searxng still relies on google, and mainstream search engines.

But also quite a few alternative search engines such as Quant and others