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Mozilla Monitor is shady (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Daughter3546@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 8 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.