In March 2024, mozilla said he was ending his cooperation onerep – An identity protection service offered with firefox The web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites has been shut down — after CrabsOnSecurity revealed that OneRep’s founder had created dozens of people-search services and continued to operate at least one of them. However, sixteen months later, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep. This week, Mozilla announced that its partnership with OneRep will officially end next month.
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In a statement published on Tuesday, Mozilla said it would be shutting down soon. monitor plusWhich offered data broker site scan and automatic 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 into Firefox for free, including our VPNs,” the advisory said.
Mozilla said current Monitor Plus customers will retain full access during the wind-down period, which will end on December 17, 2025. After that, those customers will automatically receive a prorated refund for the unused portion of their subscription.
“We explored a number of options to keep Monitor Plus running, but our high standards for vendors and the realities of the data broker ecosystem have made it challenging to consistently provide the level of value and reliability our users expect,” Mozilla’s statement said.
On March 14, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published an investigation showing that the Belarusian CEO and founder of OneRep Dmitry Shelest Launched dozens of people tracking services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Newber that sells background reports on people. Shelest issued a lengthy statement in which he acknowledged retaining an ownership stake newberA data broker he founded in 2015 – around the same time he launched OneRep.