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I guess the difference is that for Mozilla the product is Firefox, whereas for Google the product is you. Or rather; your data.

Mozilla is a non-profit organisation.

More details: Mozilla is a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation, which owns a for-profit, the Mozilla Corporation.

This is necessary because the non-profit isn't allowed to do certain things, but a for-profit can, and the non-profit is allowed to own a for-profit.

Mozilla is constrained by its non-profit structure, its open source licensing, and its high organizational transparency. While Mozilla's interests can be analyzed in terms of $$$ (or "power", or ...), such analysis is reductive and lossy. It's not meaningless, but it offers limited insight.

Mozilla does not work for shareholders.. All that money goes back into Mozilla itself.