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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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[-] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 9 months ago

They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm all for privacy but worrying about giving one of the most trustworthy companies around your name seems a bit much.

You'd also have to give them your card details to pay for it.

This would also require searching and indexing the entire system as opposed to searching it.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Need a Moreno payment system

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Tbf if someone logged that you were paying for this service that data would get removed anyway haha

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