• Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO’s ties to data broker
  • Onerep’s data removal service bundled into Mozilla’s Monitor Plus subscription
  • Onerep CEO admits to owning people-search websites, leading to end of partnership with Mozilla. Transition plan in progress.
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    This is what companies that actually care about privacy do. People over profits

    Edit: actually, I’m not quite that naive, there’s certainly a business motive here. Cut the dead weight before it drags you down. Still, a good move nonetheless

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        I had a car with a bad alternator and took it to a shop, manager quoted me $150 then called an hour later to say he’d picked the wrong version of my car on the computer, mine would be $100 more but he said “a deals a deal so we’ll do it for the 150.”

        Every other car problem I had after, straight to that shop cause I knew they’d do solid work and charge me fairly. Putting people before profits means retaining workers and getting loyal customers

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          It definitely makes sense to anyone with the ability to see past their nose. I wish companies like Comcast and Verizon could see it.

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          Plot twist: The right version was actually cheaper, but they figured they’d tell you that story to make you a more loyal customer.

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        How did you get to this conclusion? Tesla, amazon, McDs etc are top tier companies who are notoriously shit both to work for and in how they operate in terms of skirting regulation etc.

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            Profits are the goal though, look at the car industry, they have reduced production numbers to increase profits with higher margins.

            They dont care about customers, only profits and investors.

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              The point is that if they get complacent, they get replaced (example: what tesla and new Chinese companies like BYD are doing with the car market)

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            …you’re holding up Linux as a successful business entity? Compared to Tesla, Amazon, and McDonald’s?

            You need some new hobbies bro

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      It’s sorta the other way. Mozilla constantly does stuff like that and backs off when they get called out on it.

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      This one is cool but I’m still going with Librewolf, thanks.

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    This is fantastic. That said, Mozilla should really reconsider their own CEO too.

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    People. This is talking about the CEO for Onerep, not the CEO for Mozilla.

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    If only politicians were held up to the same standards when it came to being in positions of conflict of interest.

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      We’d have to abolish everyone currently in office and start over.

      Which would be beautiful.

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    I’ve always been doubtful about these privacy “protection” services. Giving a bunch of personal data and money to a commercial entity making seemingly dubious claims it can compel other services to remove your data has never seemed like a great idea. Data is the new oil, it’s incredibly valuable, and there is too much incentive for companies like that to become just another data collector.

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      The “incentive” is just greed. Customers could be paying a million dollars a month and there will still be some greedy, slimey executive pushing “if we sold their data too we could make a million and one dollars off them each month”.

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    very deceptive title from the source author. OP please insert [, the privacy partner, Onerep’s ] in place of “its” to make it clear Mozilla didn’t do anything wrong here.

    Mozilla could do something wrong, but I entirely read this as Mozilla’s CEO had ties to data brokers and ditched Mozilla’s privacy partner because of that.

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      I’m not a native speaker, but the right meaning is the one that came to mind reading this title.

      I think context makes it clear, and the most likely meaning. If it was Firefoxs CEO the one at fault, I would think it’s a ver weird way of saying it.

      But I also see people saying this is why Firefox is the worst and I’m not sure I got it right by accident, people have low reading comprehension or just a massive bias.

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        I am a native english speaker and the headline absolutely makes sense and is clearly worded, some people just dont think about what they are reading and gloss over it.

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          On lemmy in particular, you’ll see a lot of the following scenarios

          • statement could be taken one of two ways

          • option #1 makes sense and is reasonable

          • option #2 is absolute gobbledigook

          • lemmy users: “I literally cannot understand which of these interpretations is accurate”

          Perhaps it’s related to the large numbers of self-professed neurodivergent people here?

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        You’re not wrong. But also keep in mind that headlines prime readers to think in a certain way before they even get a chance to read the context. No one will admit it, because headlines make money, but all it takes is one carefully worded headline to change how people interpret, feel about, and react to a story. Even when you’re aware of this trick, it’s impossible to avoid all the time. That’s just how our brains work.

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          What I mean context is not the article, but the title as a whole. I don’t think Firefox is going to announce “our CEO traffics with data, so we are no longer working with our privacy partner”. If verge or somebody else speculated that’s the reason, I would expect the title to include " Y person thinks/told".

          It’s like “Judge sentences rapist to death after raping a child” and “Judge sentences rapist to death after careful consideration”. The context of the sentence itself makes it think that the rape was performed by the sentenced, and the consideration by the judge. They could be switched and be technically correct, but would be a very unusual way of wording.

          I don’t think this title is specially clickbaity or malicious. Specially given this is the fucking Verge.

          But again, might be how my brain is wired to read a foreign language.

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    Mozilla is one the most important tech entities in the world at the moment. Web browsers and email are currently people’s bedrock interface with the internet and Firefox (and to a lesser extent Thunderbird) are the only such mainstream applications which remain outside the complete dominance of commodification.

    We might disagree with some things that Mozilla have done but they are in the increasingly unique position of having to maintain integrity and accessibility in a constantly narrowing space. That’s because we, as users, keep using them, keep supporting them and keep demanding the best of them.

    Big up Mozilla!

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      They initied the relationship like a month ago without any safety check. Is that also a good reason?

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      When questionable decisions are seen as a virtue because they are reversed.

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        Dunno about you, but recognizing a mistake and taking action to correct it is usually a sign of maturity in my book.

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    I kind of feel like the only job of CEOs is to not intentionally removed shits up. But they often seems to fail at that somehow.

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    I’m not entirely sure I get this, so a company that will and does force other company’s to remove personal data has ties to a broker and Mozilla dropped them for those ties, I mean its not bad but its definitely harsh and removes a useful service from a subscription they offered, hopefully Mozilla can at least find a new implementation or change the pricing to shadow the lack of this feature.

    Edit: different article Mozilla did the right thing. I still think Mozilla should adjust pricing or implement a similar service.

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    Is there any service like onerep that is reputable and folks could recommend? Luckily I didn’t use onerep, but would like a similar service to explore.

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    Hmm… I started trying out Brave last week. I was a little annoyed how Brave found and blocked a couple of google trackers on some of my old sites. What draw backs does Brave have compared to Firefox going forwards after Onerep?