• GrappleHat
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    4 months ago

    I love the idea! $8.99 per month is a bit steep…

    EDIT: Thinking more about the price, Mozilla is mostly funded by Google but this is a blatantly anti-advertising/anti-Google move. Mozilla must be trying to establish a new revenue stream to get themselves independent of Google. It’s a balls-y move!

    If I’m correct in that thinking it does help justify the cost and put it in context.

    • Dran
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      504 months ago

      I have to imagine that most of these data brokers don’t have automated ways to remove information, it’s probably designed to be as annoying as possible to prevent people from doing it en-masse. If someone on mozilla’s end has to fill out a form and mail it and deal with ~200 brokers worth of constant intentional subtle constant changes (designed to break automation) to try and make services like this harder, the $9/mo seems almost reasonable.

      • @[email protected]
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        104 months ago

        pushes glasses up nose Ackchually…

        The recent CPRA regulation in CA has essentially mandated automated data deletion requests. Technically it only applies to CA residents, but it’s so hard to disprove residency that most companies will process requests from anybody.

        It only went into effect last year, but yeah - everybody I’m aware of has implemented an api for processing requests.

        I think $9/mo is pretty fair to cover paying for the engineering and infrastructure to support their ongoing integration efforts.

        That said, you could absolutely build something yourself that sends automated requests to every data broker you can find, but… Mozilla already knows where they are and will be looking for more. It’s going to become a game of whack a mole as companies that haven’t received deletion requests will have more complete (and thus more valuable) data sets.

        If you don’t want to just leave it on though - just this a couple times a year as a sort of spring-cleaning event should cut down your presence on ad rolls significantly.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        I have Incogni and they have a “compliance score” for each. I highly doubt any of it is manual (besides initial research & setup) considering there’s 120+ brokers listed on my dashboard and they send follow-up and re-requests when necessary

    • @[email protected]
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      114 months ago

      I mean yeah they can’t make everything free you know. Its good they are making services and I will be happy to support them!

    • @MrMcGasion
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      104 months ago

      8.99/month seems mostly competitive to Incogni which is a similar service that costs 12.98/month (they’ll give you a 50% discount if you buy a full year at once, which works out to 6.49/month). Although with as many sponsor spots as I see Incogni buy from YouTube creators, they are probably flush with investor capital, and trying to get as many subscribers as they can, before slowly “raising” their prices by offering fewer discounts.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      The price isn’t unheard of, but it’s got plenty of competition. A few competitors from AlternativeTo:

      Service price/year
      EasyOptOuts $19.99
      Optery $39.00 - 249.00
      PrivacyHawk $74.99
      Incogni $77.88
      OneRep* $99.96
      Mozilla $107.88
      DeleteMe $129.00
      PrivacyBee $197.00

      * Mozilla is selling a repackaged version of OneRep, charging more per year but a little less per month

      Mozilla also has at least one product in their toolbelt that gives them the ability to resell private data to ad brokers, and it’s managed by the same DPO as other Mozilla products…

      Category of data Mozilla sells to…
      Browsing history Advertising partners
      Search history Advertising partners
      Your device’s precise location Advertising partners
      Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered Advertising partners
      Other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies Advertising partners
      Inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile Advertising partners

      I wonder… If you sign up for this service, will Mozilla opt you out of these sales?

    • @macattack
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      34 months ago

      Yeah that’s a bit pricey for me. I might pay for one month a year or something like that…