Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

> In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity.

Firefox Relay is a great way to do that :) https://relay.firefox.com

Integrating that with Monitor is pretty high on at least my personal wish list.

Why would you use Mozilla Monitor Plus when onerep.com offers the same service for a lower cost? (And from other comments, I’d actually the same underlying service)

The price on onerep for monthly payment is $14.95 vs Mozilla's $13.99. Both offer discount for yearly payment and they will be almost the same. Of course, this is the price for individual. onerep offer better, cheaper plans for family (6 for $28) but Mozilla doesn't offer that (yet at least). So I'm not sure if it is a lower cost.

There is a service I've heard advertised on twit.tv podcasts called DeleteMe that I've been interested in that does a similar thing and seems to cover way more data brokers: https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/

OpenRep is another one I've seen mentioned. Covers 190+ sites: https://onerep.com/sites-we-remove-from

One thing I can't find is a list of sites that Mozilla Monitor covers.

Here's a comparison. I only listed the individual plans since Mozilla seems to only offer that. The other 2 offer plans for multiple persons

DeleteMe: https://joindeleteme.com/

brokers: 750+ https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/

edit: I just realized looking through that list that they are a bit deceiving. They have qualifiers next to each website:

  * Included in Standard Plan and above (90 sites)
  ** Included in Business Gold, Diamond, Platinum and VIP Plans (27 sites)
  *** Included in Diamond, Platinum, and VIP Plans (1 site)
  ᵒ Exclusively in Platinum and VIP Plans (13 sites)
  ~ International requests (12 sites) 
  ^ Custom Requests (665 sites) 

Seems like the majority need a "custom request" which defeats the purpose of signing up for something that is supposed to handle things automatically

pricing: https://joindeleteme.com/privacy-protection-plans/

- individual plan: (they also have couples and family plans)

  - $10.75/month if you sign up for 1yr
  - $8.71/month if you sign up for 2yr

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OpenRep: https://onerep.com/

brokers: 190+ https://onerep.com/sites-we-remove-from

pricing: https://onerep.com/pricing

1 person: $8.33/mo, they also offer family (up to 6 ppl) and teams (10+)

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Mozilla Monitor: https://monitor.mozilla.org/

brokers: 190 data brokers (could not find a list of data brokers they cover)

pricing: https://monitor.mozilla.org/#:S1:

- "Monitor" - their FREE tier where they scan the data brokers and just inform you which ones have your info and you have to manually go in and remove your information from each one through whatever process each site uses.

- "Monitor Plus" - Automatic Data Removal - $13.99/month, or $8.99/month if you sign up for a year

Both tiers come with "Data Breach Alerts" which I guess is similar to haveibeenpwned's notify me.

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edit: adding one more: https://www.optery.com/

brokers: 305+ https://www.optery.com/pricing/#data-brokers-we-cover

pricing: https://www.optery.com/pricing/ & https://www.optery.com/business-pricing/

will only cover the personal pricing:

free - self-service (similar to Mozilla's free tier)

3.99/month - removal from 110+ sites

14.99/month - removal from 200+ sites

24.99/month - removal from 305+ sites

They submit an opt-out request on your behalf. Frequently, the data will not be removed entirely, or re-surfaces later on. You're entirely dependent on the good will of the data broker sites, who are likely trying very hard to stop automation like this.