Mozilla says “customer data was never at risk.”
  • 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.
  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        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

        • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

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

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

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

          • Pips@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Monopolies for modern necessities (the internet and phone) don’t have to worry about customer retention.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    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!

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

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

  • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • underwire212@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    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.