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Mozilla Monitor is shady (self.firefox)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Daughter3546 to c/[email protected]

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Onerep is a privacy monitoring service/ privacy provider that Mozilla partnered with for their Mozilla Monitor service.

Yesterday, Brian Krebs (a cybersecurity journalist) dug into Onerep and found that the CEO is a shady Belarussian. Dimitri Shelest, CEO, of Onerep owns multiple "people searching" websites. Shelest has also been linked to aggressive spam and affiliate marketing emails.

Onerep's reputation is shady due to their CEO's multiple conflicts of interest. At worst, Onerep is sucking your personal information. At best, you're paying for a service that doesn't do anything. Either way, I would not trust Mozilla Monitor service .

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

That's the risk of partnerships with other companies for established brands with users who care about their ideals.

It'll be interesting how Mozilla reacts to this news, as they should've done better research themselves.

[–] aseriesoftubes 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Well shit, I just paid for a full year of Mozilla Monitor a couple weeks ago.

Does anyone have recommendations for other info removal services?

EDIT: If anyone else is a paid Mozilla Monitor customer, I encourage you to send Mozilla feedback about this partnership: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/mozilla-account/form

EDIT 2: Mozilla’s response to my message: “We did assess OneRep’s data removal service to confirm it acts according to privacy principles that we advocate at Mozilla. We were aware of the past affiliations with the entities named in the article and were assured they had ended prior to our work together. We’re now looking into this further.”

It seems like Mozilla should have had access to more information during their due diligence process than Krebs would have had as a third party. This is very concerning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I use easyoptouts. I made a post about them on lemmy a while ago

https://lemm.ee/post/22988838

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@aseriesoftubes I use justdeleteme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It doesn’t work with these sites and is also owned by one of them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Unfortunate. When I saw the article I had thought to double check what monitor was using but hadn’t gotten around to that. Wish it was flagged in the article itself. Ideally Mozilla would build the function in house and keep more of the money for themselves.

Thankfully you’re not giving monitor anything that those sites don’t already have (unlike credit monitoring services), but still shady. I had only intended to use it every quarter or so to remove everything and then check for sites that added it again, but will look elsewhere.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 9 months ago

Anyone ever heard of Tumblr Live?