With Firefox practically drowning in market share, Mozilla is forced to diversify to get more income, so the foundation launches a new service, Monitor Pluswhich is paid and is aimed at removing the personal data of website users who have suffered a data breach.

Mozilla Monitor Plus is basically nothing new, as there is a free version of it called Mozilla Monitor, which until recently was called Firefox Monitor. With this information on the table, one can already get a rough idea of ​​what it is, and yes, it has clear similarities to I was Pwned by Troy Hunt.

Tony Amaral-Cinotto, product manager for Mozilla Monitor at Mozilla, explains the following regarding Monitor Plus: “When we launched Monitor, our goal was to help people find out where their personal data might have been exposed. Now, With Monitor Plus, we help people recover their exposed data from sites of data brokers who are trying to sell it.“

“Our long-term commitment to putting people’s needs first and our simple step-by-step process make Monitor Plus unique. In addition, we combine breach notification and data de-brokering to offer an all-in-one protection tool and make it easy for people to feel and be safe online.”

The foundation motivated the launch of Mozilla Monitor Plus in a survey in which 42% of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 answered that they would like to know more about what types of information companies have about them. However, taking steps to request changes or deletion of personal information can be overwhelming, especially since we typically manage dozens of online accounts. This makes protecting privacy, and especially certain personal data, complicated, so Mozilla has made tools available to help you in this area.



Using Mozilla Monitor, which doesn’t have Plus in its name, users can perform scans that require input of name, location, date of birth, and email address. The foundation says that the information entered remains encrypted and that it is the minimum data to get accurate search results.

When it comes to the operation of the service as a whole, and if we take its two variants, Mozilla Monitor starts with a data deletion request on behalf of the user, and then scans every month to ensure that his personal data remains off the sites of the data provider. With Monitor Plus, which costs $8.99 per month, the user will be notified when their personal data has been removed from more than 190 data broker sites.

Privacy is a commodity that Mozilla has been selling as a value for many years, however, and especially when we see the popularity of dubious browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, it seems that there is still work to be done in terms of awareness.