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Mozilla's new service removes your personal info from data brokers

neogodless 3y ago
See related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 (blog.mozilla.org) Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers (posted 5 hours ago, front page with 150+ points, 120+ comments)
fdgadfagfgd 3y ago
Summary of what was posted earlier: 1) this is just a onerep rebrand. 2) there's this list: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... 3) a yn startup called optery is a competitor, kanary is also decent I think. I think the optery founder said 1 common use case is you can sign up for 3 months and then cancel. optery has a 20% coupon for men: ug2jhG1j and this one for women: olCpMjJI or maybe they're vice versa.
- ksenzee 3y ago
  Why on earth would there be separate coupons for men and women?
  - Spivak 3y ago
    It's not exactly that. https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/ https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/ There are categories of people eligible for the discount codes (i.e. everyone) and they use them to figure out who is using their service and why. The split between men and women is likely to try and estimate how much concern there is for general health privacy vs women concerned about government going on witch hunts for abortion.
    - ksenzee 3y ago
      Ah, women’s health privacy vs men’s health privacy - kind of weird but understandable.
brycelarkin 3y ago
Discover Cards have a similar feature. One of my favorite things about the card! https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/ https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
How does Mozilla know "your personal info" in the first place. No doubt the Holy Grail of data brokers is to be the _only_ organisation that has "your personal info". They would be an exclusive supplier, with no competition. Whereas the Holy Grail for privacy-conscious computer users should be for _no_ organisation to have "your personal info." That includes an advertising-supported browser vendor like Mozilla. Obviously, it excludes merchants organisations with which the computer user commercially contracts where the transfer of personla info is necessary to complete a commercial transaction. The computer user has no commercial transaction with Mozilla or any data broker. There is no contract of sale. Those organisations are free to use the personal info they collect in any way they choose.

See related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 (blog.mozilla.org) Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers (posted 5 hours ago, front page with 150+ points, 120+ comments)

fdgadfagfgd 3y ago

Summary of what was posted earlier: 1) this is just a onerep rebrand. 2) there's this list: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... 3) a yn startup called optery is a competitor, kanary is also decent I think. I think the optery founder said 1 common use case is you can sign up for 3 months and then cancel. optery has a 20% coupon for men: ug2jhG1j and this one for women: olCpMjJI or maybe they're vice versa.

ksenzee 3y ago
Why on earth would there be separate coupons for men and women?
- Spivak 3y ago
  It's not exactly that. https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/ https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/ There are categories of people eligible for the discount codes (i.e. everyone) and they use them to figure out who is using their service and why. The split between men and women is likely to try and estimate how much concern there is for general health privacy vs women concerned about government going on witch hunts for abortion.
  - ksenzee 3y ago
    Ah, women’s health privacy vs men’s health privacy - kind of weird but understandable.

brycelarkin 3y ago

Discover Cards have a similar feature. One of my favorite things about the card! https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/ https://www.discover.com/security/online-privacy-protection/

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago

How does Mozilla know "your personal info" in the first place. No doubt the Holy Grail of data brokers is to be the _only_ organisation that has "your personal info". They would be an exclusive supplier, with no competition. Whereas the Holy Grail for privacy-conscious computer users should be for _no_ organisation to have "your personal info." That includes an advertising-supported browser vendor like Mozilla. Obviously, it excludes merchants organisations with which the computer user commercially contracts where the transfer of personla info is necessary to complete a commercial transaction. The computer user has no commercial transaction with Mozilla or any data broker. There is no contract of sale. Those organisations are free to use the personal info they collect in any way they choose.