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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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[-] admiralteal@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

No, because you are asking the data broker to do something with your data that they possess. It is not possible for them to delete your data without knowing which are your data.

The only alternative is fully banning this kind of data collection. Which would be nice, but isn't happening anytime soon.

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