Mozilla Says It's Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep (krebsonsecurity.com) 7
Mozilla is officially ending its partnership with Onerep after more than a year of controversy over the company's founder secretly running people-search and data-broker sites. Monitor Plus will be discontinued by December 2025, existing subscribers will receive prorated refunds, and Mozilla says it will focus on privacy tools it fully controls. KrebsOnSecurity reports: In a statement published Tuesday, Mozilla said it will soon discontinue Monitor Plus, which offered data broker site scans and automated personal data removal from Onerep. "We will continue to offer our free Monitor data breach service, which is integrated into Firefox's credential manager, and we are focused on integrating more of our privacy and security experiences in Firefox, including our VPN, for free," the advisory reads.
Mozilla said current Monitor Plus subscribers will retain full access through the wind-down period, which ends on Dec. 17, 2025. After that, those subscribers will automatically receive a prorated refund for the unused portion of their subscription. "We explored several options to keep Monitor Plus going, but our high standards for vendors, and the realities of the data broker ecosystem made it challenging to consistently deliver the level of value and reliability we expect for our users," Mozilla statement reads.
Mozilla said current Monitor Plus subscribers will retain full access through the wind-down period, which ends on Dec. 17, 2025. After that, those subscribers will automatically receive a prorated refund for the unused portion of their subscription. "We explored several options to keep Monitor Plus going, but our high standards for vendors, and the realities of the data broker ecosystem made it challenging to consistently deliver the level of value and reliability we expect for our users," Mozilla statement reads.
Plants (Score:2)
Sounds like there are plants within Mozilla, in addition to all the other problems. So it's effectively as shady as Edge or Chrome now. Having to comb through the menus to turn off anything trying to give me AI or coupons, and still never really being sure.
Re: (Score:2)
Don't forget about the ad tracking that's on by default as well. Mozilla bought an ad-tech company founded by Meta ex-employees and enabled ad tracking by default.
"but our high standards for vendors" (Score:2)
Mozilla? "high standards for vendors"?
(mike drop)
Mozilla has been corrupt since Quantum (Score:2)
I Love These Features (Score:2)
Having unknown third parties processing my list of sites, user IDs, and passwords is just one of the things I really love about browser credential management. /s
I'd never heard of this company before this article. I'm genuinely happy that I've chosen not to trust browser password storage.