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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 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] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Personally, these services are all a bit sketchy anyway. Mostly because they advertise themselves as the magic bullet to remove all your unwanted personal data from the internet, but ignores that this removal relies on the cooperation of the third parties in possession of your data. Most notably, this won't work if your data has been exposed in a data breach.

To me it very much feels like VPN ads. Technically a working product, but advertised in a very dishonest way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

i agree, its more that if the vpn advertised a roster of features and removed one id still like to see the pricing reflect that reduction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

VPN use should warrant the same privacy concerns. They can tell they respect your privacy all they want, nobody can control that.

And they've got a huge incentive to sellling your data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Privateinternetaccess.com's VPN servers log nothing, and run their entire systems in RAM. If you want a VPN that's truly private, use them. They can't sell your data, because they retain nothing to sell.