I just had a quick search, I can be wrong so do not take these as facts but some parts seems to be open source and some UI parts closed, like many web browsers they get sone revenues from a start page but the owners seems very decent and advocates for internet privacy since the 1999.
Also they are based in EU which i trust way more than US servers.




I will just leave my comment here as a little time stamp.
But yes, as a way to justify for actions from the US and distract the public.