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Mozilla has recently shut down multiple projects, so why not this one too?

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms
March 14, 2024

Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep
(February 13, 2025)

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Handing over all of your private data to one company so that they can "delete your data across the whole web" was always a business model ripe for abuse. It shouldn't be surprising at all that the data brokers themselves are creating these deletion services.

Even if you find a company that you trust, surely we know by now that no database is secure in the modern age. Eventually that database will leak and given that these data deletion services have every item of personal data for all of their customers, they are an extremely high value target.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

also related: companies which track your spending to help you unsubscribe from services: so essentially someone else is tracking your payment history. They either sell that payment data to make profit, or you pay a subscription to cancel subscriptions (and get your payment data sold), sounds like a lose-lose deal.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 day ago

There is huge economic incentive for it to "leak"

I don't understand why people trust these parasites.

Data that's out there is done. Fix shit going forward basis.

Clean your behavior is the best tools plebs got to fight this aspect of the class war.

[–] 17lifers@sopuli.xyz 3 points 22 hours ago

who trusts data deletion services lol

[–] Zdvarko@lemmy.world -2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Well shit... Another browser change, opera reccomend?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This is only relevant to you if you signed up for their Monitor service.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

It makes reasonable sense to run away from any product made by a company that not only has broken people's trust, but refuses to stop breaking it to start mending it...

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

OperaGX has its own long list of issues and controversies.