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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
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  • 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.
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[–] 96 points 2 years ago (17 children)

People over profit generally seems to be the best business practice anyways

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  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I had a car with a bad alternator and took it to a shop, manager quoted me $150 then called an hour later to say he’d picked the wrong version of my car on the computer, mine would be $100 more but he said “a deals a deal so we’ll do it for the 150.”

    Every other car problem I had after, straight to that shop cause I knew they’d do solid work and charge me fairly. Putting people before profits means retaining workers and getting loyal customers

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It definitely makes sense to anyone with the ability to see past their nose. I wish companies like Comcast and Verizon could see it.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Monopolies for modern necessities (the internet and phone) don't have to worry about customer retention.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I mean, in some situations those two I mentioned are but I've been in the position to easily switch service to another company and that doesn't change their behavior at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "So the problem is it's too easy to switch. Let's change that!" - some CEO, probably

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    How did you get to this conclusion? Tesla, amazon, McDs etc are top tier companies who are notoriously shit both to work for and in how they operate in terms of skirting regulation etc.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    investing in people(customers) brings slow but longterm sustainable profits (Linux for example)

    profits don't bring customers, they bring investors

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Profits are the goal though, look at the car industry, they have reduced production numbers to increase profits with higher margins.

    They dont care about customers, only profits and investors.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The point is that if they get complacent, they get replaced (example: what tesla and new Chinese companies like BYD are doing with the car market)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That doesn't change the fact that you're both not taking the real issue into account; the biggest, wealthiest shareholders are demanding a sustained 25% RoI. That is inherently unsustainable and by design. They want companies to die because monopolies are profitable and the market was booming (until they decided to milk everything dry) so there is money to be made IF you don't value human civilization.

    I fucking hate the rich.

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