Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
- Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO’s ties to data broker - Onerep’s data removal service bundled into Mozilla’s Monitor Plus subscription - Onerep CEO admits to owning people-search websites, leading to end of partnership with Mozilla. Transition plan in progress.
very deceptive title from the source author. OP please insert [, the privacy partner, Onerep’s ] in place of “its” to make it clear Mozilla didn’t do anything wrong here.
Mozilla could do something wrong, but I entirely read this as Mozilla’s CEO had ties to data brokers and ditched Mozilla’s privacy partner because of that.
I’m not a native speaker, but the right meaning is the one that came to mind reading this title.
I think context makes it clear, and the most likely meaning. If it was Firefoxs CEO the one at fault, I would think it’s a ver weird way of saying it.
But I also see people saying this is why Firefox is the worst and I’m not sure I got it right by accident, people have low reading comprehension or just a massive bias.
What I mean context is not the article, but the title as a whole. I don’t think Firefox is going to announce “our CEO traffics with data, so we are no longer working with our privacy partner”. If verge or somebody else speculated that’s the reason, I would expect the title to include " Y person thinks/told".
It’s like “Judge sentences rapist to death after raping a child” and “Judge sentences rapist to death after careful consideration”. The context of the sentence itself makes it think that the rape was performed by the sentenced, and the consideration by the judge. They could be switched and be technically correct, but would be a very unusual way of wording.
I don’t think this title is specially clickbaity or malicious. Specially given this is the fucking Verge.
But again, might be how my brain is wired to read a foreign language.
On lemmy in particular, you’ll see a lot of the following scenarios
statement could be taken one of two ways
option #1 makes sense and is reasonable
option #2 is absolute gobbledigook
lemmy users: “I literally cannot understand which of these interpretations is accurate”
Perhaps it’s related to the large numbers of self-professed neurodivergent people here?
No I read the title as Mozilla’s CEO being tied to brokers.
A better title might be “Mozilla just ditched a privacy partner whose CEO was found to have ties with data brokers”
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