With their (partly) nonprofit status and history of open development, Mozilla is maybe the only player in tech that I _would_ trust with my information. That's

With their (partly) nonprofit status and history of open development, Mozilla is maybe the only player in tech that I _would_ trust with my information. That's why I find Firefox OS really exciting. They have an interesting setup with a for-profit corporation (Mozilla Corp.), which is wholly owned by a nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. So as I understand it, they can make money, but are obligated to stick to the foundation's stated goals. Something like that... it sounds like a clever legal hack. Pretty much all their development happens in the open, and you can read the details of everything they're working on on the wiki. https://wiki.mozilla.org/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/ And they designed Firefox Sync with end-to-end encryption, so they couldn't possibly read your bookmarks. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/sync/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/sync/ You can't go farther to protect privacy than that. As for the Google connection, apparently Microsoft (Bing) and Yahoo were competing for the contract to be the default search engine in Firefox, which is why Google ended up paying so much more recently (December 2011) than last time: https://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almost-300m-per-year-in-search-deal-besting-microsoft-and-yahoo/ https://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almo... I bet this is a big reason why Google is fighting so hard to get people over to Chrome. If they erode Firefox's market share enough, that price will go down. But so far, it doesn't look like Mozilla has made any concessions to Google. Rather the reverse.