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Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data.
The service is priced at $8.99 per month and is an extension of the free dark web monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (previously Firefox Monitor).
Basic Monitor members receive a free scan and one-time removal sweep, while Plus members get continual monthly data broker scans and removal attempts.

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[–] subignition@kbin.social 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are already plenty of companies that sell managed data removal like this, Mozilla claims to be doing it better and perhaps they are incrementally more trustworthy than the smaller no name ones

[–] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Discover does it for free, but they only do so on a handful of sites.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Decided to try it out, 489 request in progress vs the 10 from a year with Discovers free takedowns.

[–] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I think it was only 3 when I first signed up, so that's an improvement. They probably hit the ones most likely to honor takedown requests, but yeah 190 sites is more than 10. $9 is more than $0 too though, so it's a balance.

I wonder how many sites like this actually exist. Probably over a thousand would be my guess.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just tried to enable it, they want $15/month.

[–] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're looking at their identity theft bullshit? The data removal is free, but only for 10 sites.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Probably so. How do you sign up for the data removal?