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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 132 points 7 months ago (9 children)

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

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

It's Chromium underneath, so using it increases Google's control over web standards

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Brave has built-in telemetry, that pings their servers every day, by default it comes with a whole bunch of blockchain/NFT bullshit, it installs VPN services on your computer without your consent, they used to insert their affiliate links into URLs of shopping websites and there are many more controversies around Brave.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And to add to all this, the company that maintains Brave is run by a well known anti-lgbtq bigot.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Yup.

Donated money for a campaign for stripping gay people of their right to marry.

Backed a politician who said that AIDS is good because it cleanses the world of gay people.

And when questioned about his views in an interview, no joke, his position was that by criticising him on his position surrounding LGBT rights, you are being intolerant of others.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah I forgot about their CEO, he's an asshole

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Looks like Mozilla will always depend on that google check lol.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The headline is ambiguous here. The CEO in question is from Onerep, not Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And that is not related to the comment. If this partner is gone, Firefox lost a big deal.

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

This CEO has been a problem from day one, and there needs to be a movement to get rid of them.

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

Didn't the CEO recently step down or am I confused?

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 106 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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

Which would be beautiful.

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