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> I lose trust in Mozilla Why did you lose trust in Mozilla? What other browser would you recommend instead?
Mozilla != Firefox
The ceo is a joke and the org sucks.
Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
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#12I’m a happy, long term Optery user (not affiliated) and they take care of 100% of this for you. https://www.optery.com The Mozilla offering looks somewhat comparable, but I do wonder if they’re going to beat a company which has the sole focus of solving this problem.
Especially with a backend service provider (onerep.com) that is questionable at best.
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#13I wanted to try this, but it seems to be restricted to only people in the USA. It is impossible to enter a location outside the USA in the sign-up form, and it's impossible to skip that form. Please, Mozilla, make it much clearer which countries are supported to avoid causing this frustration and to give people a reason to come back once other countries are supported.
Sorry about that. The form should only be shown for people in the USA, but detecting the country you're in can't be done perfectly. Which is a good reminder - we'll look into making the US-only part clearer.
(I'm an engineer on Monitor.)
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This is a much better path forward than some of their other gimmicks. Hopefully it works as billed and is successful.
They could have been where Proton is -- offering a security/privacy-first suite of tools -- had they not spent time and resources chasing Pocket and invasive ad campaigns.
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#15Mozilla Monitor Plus - $14/mo, or $108/yr. Too pricey for most.
>Every month, we use the information you provided about yourself (name, location and birthdate) to search across 190 data broker sites that sell people’s private information. If we find your data on any of these sites, we initiate the request for removal. Data removal can take anywhere from a day to a month. This feature is available for Monitor Plus users only.
Anyone know if there are any local/open source tools to do this?
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#16How do they get your data removed from the brokers' databases?
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#17I like this in theory, I don't have time to chase down every data broker to opt-out on my own. I'm just wondering how I can measure whether it's really effective or not. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing?
This is always my pessimistic view of the world we live in today. Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc? The only "proof" you have is if you send a request to see the data they hold on you. If they send you an empty report because the ignore flag was set, you would only see an empty report. You have no evidence that the data was actually deleted.
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#18I wanted to try this, but it seems to be restricted to only people in the USA. It is impossible to enter a location outside the USA in the sign-up form, and it's impossible to skip that form. Please, Mozilla, make it much clearer which countries are supported to avoid causing this frustration and to give people a reason to come back once other countries are supported.
Could just be in the short term they are limiting it to the USA and going global soon.
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#19I wanted to try this, but it seems to be restricted to only people in the USA. It is impossible to enter a location outside the USA in the sign-up form, and it's impossible to skip that form. Please, Mozilla, make it much clearer which countries are supported to avoid causing this frustration and to give people a reason to come back once other countries are supported.
Same with Optery shared below. I wonder if there are any European/International counterparts to these services.
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#20How do they get your data removed from the brokers' databases?
onerep.com
"If you are located in the United States and have a Monitor Plus subscription, OneRep receives your first and last name, email address, phone number, physical address and date of birth in order to scan data broker sites to find your personal data and request its removal. OneRep keeps your personal data until you end your Monitor subscription in order to check whether your information shows up on additional sites, or has reappeared on the sites you’ve already been removed from."