- 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.
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
People over profit generally seems to be the best business practice anyways
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
It definitely makes sense to anyone with the ability to see past their nose. I wish companies like Comcast and Verizon could see it.
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Plot twist: The right version was actually cheaper, but they figured they’d tell you that story to make you a more loyal customer.
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.
investing in people(customers) brings slow but longterm sustainable profits (Linux for example)
profits don’t bring customers, they bring investors
Profits are the goal though, look at the car industry, they have reduced production numbers to increase profits with higher margins.
They dont care about customers, only profits and investors.
…you’re holding up Linux as a successful business entity? Compared to Tesla, Amazon, and McDonald’s?
You need some new hobbies bro
It’s sorta the other way. Mozilla constantly does stuff like that and backs off when they get called out on it.
This one is cool but I’m still going with Librewolf, thanks.
People. This is talking about the CEO for Onerep, not the CEO for Mozilla.
Oh thank God I was like bruh now what do I do
A good example that average reading comprehension is terrible.
This isn’t a reading comprehension issue.
It 100% is.
Context is an aspect of reading comprehension.
Articles and headlines do not exist in a vacuum. ‘Context’ is not even remotely straightforward.
Yeah. I didn’t say it was easy. I implied it’s a skill that you should have been taught.
This is fantastic. That said, Mozilla should really reconsider their own CEO too.
If only politicians were held up to the same standards when it came to being in positions of conflict of interest.
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.
A masterbaiter, perfect fit for making Youtube titles.
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev please edit :)
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.
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”.
Good. Just another reason to keep Firefox.
They initied the relationship like a month ago without any safety check. Is that also a good reason?
When questionable decisions are seen as a virtue because they are reversed.
Dunno about you, but recognizing a mistake and taking action to correct it is usually a sign of maturity in my book.
I kind of feel like the only job of CEOs is to not intentionally fuck shits up. But they often seems to fail at that somehow.
If you do a good job as CEO we’ll pay you $1 million
If you mess up as CEO we’ll pay you $900,000
If you really mess up as CEO we’ll pay you $800,000
If you completely tank the company … we’ll pay you $2 million
I’m not entirely sure I get this, so a company that will and does force other company’s to remove personal data has ties to a broker and Mozilla dropped them for those ties, I mean its not bad but its definitely harsh and removes a useful service from a subscription they offered,hopefully Mozilla can at least find a new implementation or change the pricing to shadow the lack of this feature.Edit: different article Mozilla did the right thing. I still think Mozilla should adjust pricing or implement a similar service.
Looks like Mozilla will always depend on that google check lol.
The headline is ambiguous here. The CEO in question is from Onerep, not Mozilla.
And that is not related to the comment. If this partner is gone, Firefox lost a big deal.
Context. People seemed to be complaining about Mozilla’s CEO. That’s why I wanted to clarify for anyone reading the comments first.
This CEO has been a problem from day one, and there needs to be a movement to get rid of them.
Didn’t the CEO recently step down or am I confused?
She did. People are dumb.
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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?
