Incredible.
Mozilla does something good for privacy and the comment section goes crazy about it saying Mozilla is evil.
Mozilla found out that the CEO of a company they’re in a partnership with ran a company that isn’t great from a privacy perspective, so Mozilla promptly cut ties. That’s it. That’s the story.
The Firefox hate seems so irrational to me. Like it’s not completely natural or something. People were SO QUICK to come here and shit talk Mozilla without giving the actual content of the article a second thought to realize that this makes them look good.
Is it so hard to understand that people feel burned by a paid-for service that promised better privacy actually selling out your info because Mozilla didn’t do the bare basic due diligence?
I don’t see any allegations that the company they partnered with was selling out your info. Just that the CEO of that company was involved in other companies that weren’t privacy friendly.
They weren’t selling data. You’re either misunderstanding or making shit up.
Nobody here seems to have read the article, so to clear things up: Onerep’s CEO is the one running the people-search networks. Mozilla’s CEO was not. (As far as we know.)
Mozilla dropping Onerep is a good thing. It shows that they respect user privacy.
trust takes years to build but it can evaporate in seconds. mozilla associating with these people is very bad rep, won’t help them develop further.
Didn’t read the article, hm?
What you mean? I’m saying Mozilla associating with them is bad rep, whatever if they backpack a month later.
They partnered with them before this came out, and the moment it came out they cut ties.
Yeah. Basically Mozilla is awesome. Such logic
And the fact this wasn’t caught sooner means Mozilla doesn’t do any due diligence and aren’t to be trusted being a privacy-focused business.
This information didn’t come to light until very recently.
It’s also not information that would be easily known without disclosure of some kind. It’s trivial to keep your name out of plain view when you own a business.
Don’t feel bad about the downvotes, normal people understand how this should have never happened in the first place but terminally online nerds will defend Mozilla to their dying breath.
Yeah, I’m myself a Firefox user but it doesn’t mean i can’t criticize when Mozilla does something wrong. In business you’re responsible to who you associate with, that’s business 101. i fail to understand why people in here disagree but to be honest I’m not sure it’s the business elite hanging around here considering the amount of comment I see promoting communism/ socialism and how bad capitalism is 😭
Look at how downvoted you are for stating this simple fact. Lemmy is a fucking dumpster fire.
Then leave. Bye.
Good news is that Arc for Windows is coming out of open beta soon. Finally time for me to ditch Firefox.
Been saying Mozilla is headed downhill for a year now.
Always catch a ton of downvotes.
Still my daily driver. But I’m ready to jump ship.
It’s not Mozilla’s CEO that’s doing anything shady here, it’s a partner company, OneRep.
Edit: And Mozilla is breaking up with OneRep because of it. (Just in case someone had missed that part.)
Breaking up before or after they were doing business with OneRep? Because they should have caught this before any of their customers ever paid for it.
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Jump to what? Another Chromium based browser?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Lemmy is a dumpster fire filled with terminally online nerds living in their mom’s basement. It’s even worse than Reddit.
Like Mozilla offered a paid service designed to protect your privacy that just made your privacy worse than if you did nothing at all, and these NEETs want you to think it’s okay because they fired the company after the damage was already done.
And you’ll get mass downvotes for saying that’s a shitty thing to do.
Totally agree. Lemmy is actually worse than Reddit. And yeah obviously Mozilla should take heat for this. I don’t get why people get so butt hurt when people make valid criticisms. Most of the “people” here seem to just parrot the same narrative. So much for the fediverse being less agitprop, spam filled garbage
