<story><title>Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hayst4ck</author><text>If company A creates a problem that company B is paid to solve, then company B benefits when company A is able to make the problem bigger. Therefore Company A and company B both have a vested interest in the problem continuing to be problematic. Both are in a symbiotic relationship that allows them to both extract a profit while providing no &lt;i&gt;net&lt;/i&gt; benefit to society.&lt;p&gt;This is rent-seeking (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rent-seeking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rent-seeking&lt;/a&gt;). Rent-seeking is an economic drag and ethically indefensible.&lt;p&gt;Regulation is how this problem gets solved and it&amp;#x27;s the &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; way it gets solved.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ds</author><text>All the existing databroker remover tools are flawed because they make use of manual labor to remove you from sites, primarily done by people in third world countries.&lt;p&gt;We @ &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redact.dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;redact.dev&lt;/a&gt; are working on a pure software mechanism for doing these optouts directly from your own device. We already have full mass deletions for over 40 social media and utilitys.</text></comment>