Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites | The Mozilla Blog
blog.mozilla.orgToday, Mozilla Monitor (previously called Firefox Monitor), a free service that notifies you when your email has been part of a breach, announced its new p
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Site feels deceptive.
Big box: Enter your email for a free scan!
Hit big blue button that says “Get free scan!”
Next page is enter your password to create a free account.
:-(
I agree it’s shitty, but its so that they can tell you later if your email does the leaked!
Not really in this case. It’s for the free one-time scan, I wasn’t signing up for the service.
I like the idea of this sort of thing, but it always ultimately comes down to placing some kind of trust in the data brokers. This seems foolish to me because they clearly have no interest whatsoever in complying with this sort of thing unless they are forced to.
Hell, if I were a proper scumbag I’d make harvesting the information of people who requested it taken down my business. Exclusive demographic, low cost business model ;-)
Hopefully Mozella have thought of this and mix a bunch of trash data with their searches and requests… or some other scheme to minimize the impact of “bad actors” in the data harvesting industry.
i mean it’s just your firefox account, which you presumably already have
I probably should but I don’t. Firefox is strongly associated with my nostalgia for a time when few things required one.