Mozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep
Summary: Mozilla announced this week that its partnership with Onerep will officially end next month, discontinuing Monitor Plus, the paid service that offered data broker site scans and automated personal data removal through Onerep. The move comes sixteen months after KrebsOnSecurity reported in March 2024 that Onerep founder Dimitiri Shelest had launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including the still-active data broker Nuwber, in which he acknowledged holding an ownership stake. Current Monitor Plus subscribers keep full access through the wind-down period ending December 17, 2025, after which they receive a prorated refund for the unused portion of their subscription.
Why it matters: Mozilla kept promoting a removal service for sixteen months after reporting tied its founder to the very people-search industry the product was sold to fight, which is the concrete risk in any vendor you trust with personal data: the party removing your information may also be selling it.
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