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.
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.
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?
Good news is that Arc for Windows is coming out of open beta soon. Finally time for me to ditch Firefox.
Youre so cool and edgy.
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Am I? For ditching a product that sold out my personal info by using a paid-for service designed to protect my privacy?
I gave Mozilla their chance and they pulled this shit.
The article is about them cutting ties with the company after finding out the CEO of the partner company was doing something bad for privacy. Mozilla, as far as we know at this point, isn’t guilty of anything bad except maybe not thoroughly digging into the CEO of this other company’s past thoroughly enough. Mozilla was not profiting off of selling your data. They’re not even sure if the other company was directly using their “privacy” service to benefit the CEO’s data harvesting company, just that he had been doing data harvesting, and then started a “privacy” company to remove data from the data aggregating sites, like the exact ones he funded.
So, are you sure you’re clear on what happened? Because Mozilla rectified an oversight on their part after they discovered a partner company’s executive had ties to the exact industry they were supposed to be fighting.
Freedom of choice… How is that edgy?
I think it was a pun. Arc is built on the same engine as Edge.
So built on chromium?
Explains why no matter what it will be down voted here. People simp for a company who has the majority of all profits from a company they hate, and call them legit.
Yep, built on Chromium.
But it’s okay, I kinda like the downvote game here and pissing off the extremists who baby raged on over after Reddit’s API change.
Arc is the first company actually innovating in the browser space in two decades and I’ll happily accept that work being done on top of an open-source base that Google doesn’t control that much.
open-source base that Google doesn’t control that much.
I was with you until that statement. My interactions with people who work with Chromium’s code a lot, and with maintainers of open-source projects that use that code (like LineageOS), has given me a very different impression.
(The downvotes aren’t from me, though. I don’t think they’re a useful way to express disagreement.)
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.)
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Jump to what? Another Chromium based browser?
