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Mozilla Monitor is shady (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Onerep is a privacy monitoring service/ privacy provider that Mozilla partnered with for their Mozilla Monitor service.

Yesterday, Brian Krebs (a cybersecurity journalist) dug into Onerep and found that the CEO is a shady Belarussian. Dimitri Shelest, CEO, of Onerep owns multiple “people searching” websites. Shelest has also been linked to aggressive spam and affiliate marketing emails.

Onerep’s reputation is shady due to their CEO’s multiple conflicts of interest. At worst, Onerep is sucking your personal information. At best, you’re paying for a service that doesn’t do anything. Either way, I would not trust Mozilla Monitor service .

This is a copy and paste from a post I made to [email protected]. I do not no know how to crosspost and I apologise for my mistake a head of time.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

At least they are very clear about what data is at risk here, namely "OneRep receives your

first and last name,
email address,
phone number,
physical address and
date of birth

in order to scan data broker sites to find your personal data and request its removal." cf https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/subscription-services/

It's indeed not a good look anyway to be partnering (without doing much that sharing your brand, and thus trust invested in you) with somebody apparently solving the problem... they themselves help fuel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This reminds me of that one virus where you put your Credit Card info into the shady website to check that "your card is not in any hacker database" lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this a shitpost? I'm confused as to how they'd verify if your accounts are compromised without knowing your basic info.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not the problem, the problem is whether we can actually trust Mozilla Monitor to not sell the same data you're trying to scrub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Fair enough. I completely agree that the feature creep is concerning and aggravating. I think it comes down to them trying to grow adoption of the browser and services. Mozilla has like a 1% market share. I'll still use it over chrome or edge. At least we can disable all the bullshit in about:config or just not sign up for the extra services.