- 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.
Looks like Mozilla will always depend on that google check lol.
This CEO has been a problem from day one, and there needs to be a movement to get rid of them.
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.
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.
I’m not a native speaker, but the right meaning is the one that came to mind reading this title.
I think context makes it clear, and the most likely meaning. If it was Firefoxs CEO the one at fault, I would think it’s a ver weird way of saying it.
But I also see people saying this is why Firefox is the worst and I’m not sure I got it right by accident, people have low reading comprehension or just a massive bias.
You’re not wrong. But also keep in mind that headlines prime readers to think in a certain way before they even get a chance to read the context. No one will admit it, because headlines make money, but all it takes is one carefully worded headline to change how people interpret, feel about, and react to a story. Even when you’re aware of this trick, it’s impossible to avoid all the time. That’s just how our brains work.
What I mean context is not the article, but the title as a whole. I don’t think Firefox is going to announce “our CEO traffics with data, so we are no longer working with our privacy partner”. If verge or somebody else speculated that’s the reason, I would expect the title to include " Y person thinks/told".
It’s like “Judge sentences rapist to death after raping a child” and “Judge sentences rapist to death after careful consideration”. The context of the sentence itself makes it think that the rape was performed by the sentenced, and the consideration by the judge. They could be switched and be technically correct, but would be a very unusual way of wording.
I don’t think this title is specially clickbaity or malicious. Specially given this is the fucking Verge.
But again, might be how my brain is wired to read a foreign language.
No I read the title as Mozilla’s CEO being tied to brokers.
A better title might be “Mozilla just ditched a privacy partner whose CEO was found to have ties with data brokers”
I am a native english speaker and the headline absolutely makes sense and is clearly worded, some people just dont think about what they are reading and gloss over it.
On lemmy in particular, you’ll see a lot of the following scenarios
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statement could be taken one of two ways
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option #1 makes sense and is reasonable
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option #2 is absolute gobbledigook
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lemmy users: “I literally cannot understand which of these interpretations is accurate”
Perhaps it’s related to the large numbers of self-professed neurodivergent people here?
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?
Brave has built-in telemetry, that pings their servers every day, by default it comes with a whole bunch of blockchain/NFT bullshit, it installs VPN services on your computer without your consent, they used to insert their affiliate links into URLs of shopping websites and there are many more controversies around Brave.
And to add to all this, the company that maintains Brave is run by a well known anti-lgbtq bigot.
Yup.
Donated money for a campaign for stripping gay people of their right to marry.
Backed a politician who said that AIDS is good because it cleanses the world of gay people.
And when questioned about his views in an interview, no joke, his position was that by criticising him on his position surrounding LGBT rights, you are being intolerant of others.
LibreWolf. Firefox with lots of extra privacy
Because you lack reading comprehension /s
Also Librewolf is just hardened firefox with some other neat features, I use it but not as a daily driver
