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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] 92 points 5 months ago

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 5 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".

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