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

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

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Post by lkdfjlkdfjlg »

beyondd wrote: post #54

Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker sites and offers Unlimited Custom Removals providing the most comprehensive coverage in the industry. Optery has a variety of plans for different coverage needs (Free, Paid, Family, Business), and the ability to pause or cancel a subscription at any time. - Mozilla…

> Optery (YC W22)

Nothing against your company specifically, but at this stage anything associated with YN is a negative.

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

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Post by some_random »

beyondd wrote: post #54

Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker sites and offers Unlimited Custom Removals providing the most comprehensive coverage in the industry. Optery has a variety of plans for different coverage needs (Free, Paid, Family, Business), and the ability to pause or cancel a subscription at any time. - Mozilla…

Wait what, why would a data broker partner with a company whose entire purpose is to reduce the completeness of their dataset?

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

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Post by beyondd »

mattstir wrote: post #52
dataflow wrote: post #27

Not sure if dumb question: If they use the data you provide (such as your address) to search other data brokers, doesn't that potentially give the data broker MORE information than they already had on you? Do the companies in this space prevent this somehow? Edit: Lest people think this is somehow impossible otherwise - all it should take would be to search for just your name + location, get the query results, then f…

Not a dumb question at all. Yeah, in the process of finding you within a data brokers system and sending a removal request, they need to send that broker your personal data... it's a bit awkward. Optery, another PII removal service has a whole section about this in their privacy policy (section 7 of https://www.optery.com/privacy-policy/ ): > Optery, Inc. must send your PII to the data brokers and information aggrega…

Optery also has a Help Desk article on this catch-22 where in order to opt out of data broker sites, you must first tell them who you are, otherwise, how else would they know who to opt out: https://help.optery.com/en/article/what-information-does-opt...

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

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Post by tholtken »

some_random wrote: post #62
beyondd wrote: post #54

Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker sites and offers Unlimited Custom Removals providing the most comprehensive coverage in the industry. Optery has a variety of plans for different coverage needs (Free, Paid, Family, Business), and the ability to pause or cancel a subscription at any time. - Mozilla…

Wait what, why would a data broker partner with a company whose entire purpose is to reduce the completeness of their dataset?

money

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

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Post by mozempthrowaway »

westpfelia wrote: post #21
doix wrote: post #8

> Privacy starts with a Mozilla Account I like how the solution to the privacy issue is _yet another account_. I don't know why, but I find it highly amusing. I do get it, you need to share your details with them so they know which details to delete, but I still can't help but laugh.

For something like this to work you have to trust SOMEONE. And Mozilla is definitely more trustworthy then others in the space.

Eh kind of. One of the recent themes at our all hands was “data collection for user benefit” which I’m sure is what every company says.

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

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Post by tholtken »

mozempthrowaway wrote: post #67
westpfelia wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For something like this to work you have to trust SOMEONE. And Mozilla is definitely more trustworthy then others in the space.

Eh kind of. One of the recent themes at our all hands was “data collection for user benefit” which I’m sure is what every company says.

What does this even mean? How does Mozilla know what benefits me, the user?

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

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Post by flanbiscuit »

OnACoffeeBreak wrote: post #46
flanbiscuit wrote: post #38

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 on…

It doesn't look like DeleteMe's individual plan covers 750+ sites. There are only 77 sites with a single asterisk on https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/

I noticed that as well after I posted, so I've edited it and added that in.

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

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Post by beyondd »

Mistletoe wrote: post #58

What are the cons of data brokers having my info and does it outweigh losing $14.99 a month?

For many its just getting their home address, phone number and email off the web, which can make you less of an easy target by attackers. For others its something really specific, like someone who is divorced and doesn't want their name showing up next to their ex's name as a spouse or relative. For others, they want their age off the web to prevent age discrimination in a job search. Others may be hiding from an abuser or stalker.
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