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Mozilla Corporation gets paid by Google to offer Google as a search engine to Firefox users. There's no sponsorship relationship — it's a mutual exchange of value.

See the corporation's audited financial statements:

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

Mozilla is an independent non-profit organization. Yes, they do get a lot of revenue from Google - but they do not control Mozilla.

Mozilla has been sponsored by Google since long ago, but they always thought about people first. In fact, if you don't trust them you can run your own sync server in whatever country you like.