Less spyware... what happens is Mozilla uses and is funded by Google Ads. Google in turn does actively go against them, as noted they deliberately fucked up Youtube for firefox (this was found a while back, a specific browser check)... it's possibly to encourage people to move to chrome, almost certainly because of manifest2 and advanced adblockers like ublock origin which bypass ads and aren't detectable by most means.
As for the IP... it's google cloud. That's like saying a company is allied with Jeff Bezos because they use AWS.
As for the IP... it's google cloud. That's like saying a company is allied with Jeff Bezos because they use AWS.