Web browser company writes an entire paper 
on why web browsers are essential to the internet Generated by TLDR This:
Introduction This report has two purposes: first, to present Mozilla's research (both recent surveys and years of knowledge) into consumer interaction with browsers.
O P E R AT I N G S Y S T E M S M I S U S E T H E I R P R I V I L E G E D P O S I T I O N Deceptive pattern practices targeted at consumers Inhibiting Independent App Discovery -All five major platforms today (Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft) bundle their respective browsers with their operating systems and set them as the operating system default in the prime home screen or dock position.
Yet, this theoretical confidence does not mean people consciously choose their software, nor does it translate to action: a large number of people report never thinking about the browser or search engine they use.
In the following scenario, a Bing user is displayed an advert at the top of their search engine results page to dissuade them from downloading Firefox and prompted to use the browser which is already pre-installed on their Windows operating system (Microsoft Edge).
Operating system providers, particularly Google, have an extensive range of marketing and advertising resources which can be deployed to promote their brand and products; this effectively serves as constant priming for their browser.
However, very few have recognized the connection between these issues and the importance of browser competition, or studied the role of OCA practices as a way to implement (or thwart) consumer choice and welfare.
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So furryfox is basically upset that companies set the browser they develop as the default, and then if you use another browser while access using said companies for whatever free service you're using you get ads to use their product.
What this tells me is Mozilla is incapable of delivering a functional OS or any free services to advertise to switch their browser that people will use.
I'm getting call backs to Opera bitching to the EU to make Microsoft have a 'browser picker' on first boot on your brand new OS, which didn't help them at all so they had to get sold off to some Chinese company.
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