- 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.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/YdY3R
God bless the Mozilla foundation
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.
It’s better when it’s in their hands, because:
- It’s Mozilla - one of the more trusty organizations out there.
- They don’t get your information in some sneaky way from some source that was never supposed to be available to them.
- You know exactly how they make money from your data.
Unless you trust Mozilla. I’m unaware of another organization that is more trustworthy, despite the haters mad that CEOs make money.
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.
There isn’t a better company to do this than mozzila. I mean there literally are but in practice this is a good thing
If I’m reading this correctly, are they basically just reselling the Onerep service ($14.95/monthly or $99.96/annually) for $8.99/month?
Almost got a heart attack when I read that they made a subscription service.
If they added automatic online account collation and mass deletion I’d pay them $100 on the spot to wipe the hundreds of random accounts I have on sites/services I never use and often have never used.
I got downvoted to hell for saying it before, but what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.
Firefox is my go-to today, but I’m watching them closely.
Edit: typical fanboy downvotes. The writing is on the wall. Mark my words y’all. In 2035 you’ll be saying “get off Firefox” like you’re currently saying “get off chrome”. I’ve seen this song and dance before.
Also, look at this super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?
what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.
Can you elaborate on the statement? I’m not connecting the dots.
super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?
I am not convinced that’s what’s going on. It looks more like some weird thing snap does to make hunspell available to snap Firefox.
Have you seen this behavior on your own Ubuntu install? In other words, can you reproduce the described scenario?
Yes. I literally have a cron job to unmount and rename my root directory to / that runs every 12 hours.
And how does that work? How do you unmount the root directory of a live system and invoke a script?
sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/nullLike that?
It’s not unmounting my root directory it’s unmounting what Firefox mounted on my root directory.
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That makes no sense. The bug listed shows the same device mounted to / and that spelling for in /var or whatever. And your system wouldn’t operate if / didn’t exist. I’m almost curious enough to go set up a VM to try to see what’s happening.
My working solution is literally running a Cron .sh which is
sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/nullIf Firefox updates via snap, it will change back to bullshit. Is the case in every 22.04 VM I have on my machine as well. This script effectively gives me “/” back, and unfucks the rest of my machine.
It is a reason for me looking to leave Ubuntu after 12 years dedicated. Just because it makes no sense doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
Man that’s well and truly fucked. I would be wanting to ditch Ubuntu also. What distros are you thinking about trying?
Probably just go to Debian.
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