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Unfortunate. When I saw the article I had thought to double check what monitor was using but hadn’t gotten around to that. Wish it was flagged in the article itself. Ideally Mozilla would build the function in house and keep more of the money for themselves.

Thankfully you’re not giving monitor anything that those sites don’t already have (unlike credit monitoring services), but still shady. I had only intended to use it every quarter or so to remove everything and then check for sites that added it again, but will look elsewhere.

Well shit, I just paid for a full year of Mozilla Monitor a couple weeks ago.

Does anyone have recommendations for other info removal services?

EDIT: If anyone else is a paid Mozilla Monitor customer, I encourage you to send Mozilla feedback about this partnership: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/mozilla-account/form

EDIT 2: Mozilla’s response to my message: “We did assess OneRep’s data removal service to confirm it acts according to privacy principles that we advocate at Mozilla. We were aware of the past affiliations with the entities named in the article and were assured they had ended prior to our work together. We’re now looking into this further.”

It seems like Mozilla should have had access to more information during their due diligence process than Krebs would have had as a third party. This is very concerning.

Anyone ever heard of Tumblr Live?

That's the risk of partnerships with other companies for established brands with users who care about their ideals.

It'll be interesting how Mozilla reacts to this news, as they should've done better research themselves.