Edit:
Major shareholder: Burda media (Focus, Bunte, etc)
Minor shareholder: Mozilla
"We are overjoyed to announce that the Ghostery extension and mobile browsers have been acquired by Cliqz, a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media that builds ground-breaking browser technologies to make the internet more private and easier to use."
[0] http://www2016.net/proceedings/proceedings/p121.pdf [1] http://josepmpujol.net/public/papers/big_green_tracker.pdf
Personally, I also find it important that Cliqz is based on Firefox, other than almost all the other new browser projects out there which are based on Chromium. There is nothing wrong with Chromium, but I believe some choice / friendly competition in rendering and JavaScript engines is important for the overall well-being of the web.
That sounds an awful lot like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Badger.
Did they change that?
