Mozilla Monitor Will Receive Your Stolen Internet Data for a Fee
Mozilla has a strong reputation for protecting user privacy and security online, starting with Firefox, which offers a useful web browser that also blocks tracking of you, especially once you start changing its settings .
It makes sense that the company has a service like Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor) that helps you find and protect your stolen data. Mozilla Monitor promises to scan more than 190 sites on the web for data that belongs to you, usually obtained through data breaches from companies with which you have accounts. These sites are known for selling this type of data, so services like Monitor can help stop these transactions before criminals can buy up your information.
This data can range from email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses to financial information and even the names of your direct family members. (There’s probably a lot of data about you floating around the Internet.) Unless you use a service like Mozilla Monitor, you may never know that your data is being sold on one of these sites, especially if you never received the memo. that one of your accounts has been hacked. Once detected, Mozilla will tell you which sites are storing your data so you can contact them and ask them to remove it.
Mozilla Monitor Plus automates the process (for a fee)
Mozilla Monitor is a free service that offers a one-time scan of known sites. However, today the company is releasing a paid version of the service called Mozilla Monitor Plus . For $13.99 per month or $8.99 per month if billed annually, you get a monthly scan of these 190+ sites. Additionally, when Mozilla finds data that belongs to you, it will contact you on your behalf to request that you delete it. This puts Mozilla Monitor Plus more in line with proactive data monitoring services like DeleteMe .
By the way, there are already many services that will help you remove yourself from the Internet. The aforementioned DeleteMe service, for example, asks you to provide an extensive list of information about yourself so it can better find that information online (it costs a little more, at $10.75 if billed annually). Incogni offers a more affordable option at $6.49 per month billed annually, while Kanary offers a 14-day free trial before a $14.99 per month plan (billed annually, of course).
Mozilla’s paid plan just launched today, so it’s hard to say exactly how it differs from other options. But it may be the right choice for those who are already using the free version, as it will free you from the hassle of moving your data offline.
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