• 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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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    How can they know it’s your data without first collecting your data to compare it?

    “Give us your personal information so we can ask others to delete your personal information” just doesn’t sound like a trustworthy offer.

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      8 months ago

      Likely you must provide Mozilla with basic identifying data like name and birth date. Which isn’t all that radical since you’re giving them quite a bit more by paying them.

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      8 months ago

      Unless you trust Mozilla. I’m unaware of another organization that is more trustworthy, despite the haters mad that CEOs make money.

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        The CEO is making an inordinate amount of money. $6.9 million is excessive.

        You can argue that Mozilla should be held to the same low standard as every other corporation, but if you do that, you have to take into account that the Mozilla CEO got a huge pay raise in a year where other CEOs got less money.

        • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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          $6.9MM is a perfectly reasonable compensation package for a $500MM organization and is probably low to attract a significant number of quality candidates.

          • idefix@sh.itjust.works
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            Just no. My CEO runs a much larger organisation than Mozilla corp and her salary is 1m€ per year (public information), and that’s perfectly adequate.

              • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
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                Yeah I don’t think we should so directly equate quality of an expert with quantity of money.

              • LWD@lemm.ee
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                8 months ago

                A $2 million raise just made the CEO worse at running Mozilla. Honestly, if you think the company should hemorrhage money that rapidly, who’s the one that hates it?

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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      It’s better when it’s in their hands, because:

      1. It’s Mozilla - one of the more trusty organizations out there.
      2. They don’t get your information in some sneaky way from some source that was never supposed to be available to them.
      3. You know exactly how they make money from your data.
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      It’s ironic yeah, but if trust is the only way to implement something like this, then Mozilla is probably the one company I would trust considering they’re a non-profit org.

    • JustUseMint@lemmy.world
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      There isn’t a better company to do this than mozzila. I mean there literally are but in practice this is a good thing

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      The way I see it, if you’re asking for data removal, it’s because your identity is public online already, the company has nothing else to gain maybe other than the payment information and you can get a new card if they just happened to be untrustworthy.