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haveibeenpwned.com has been offering the same service for free for years.

It doesn't look the same to me.

haveibeenpwned will notify you if your email address was in a breach.

The Mozilla offering seems to include the same, but also cover other pieces of personal data, and the ability to request removal from data brokers.

That ability is not the product they're offering though, that's something you can already once you identify where your data is. And obviously that's if they have a way for you to do request removal and if they feel like doing it at all which are the same constraints for Mozilla. I think this is all purely for convenience of having it all done for you (which is okay)

Well, even if you consider the removal aspect of it useless since you could do it yourself, there is still value in knowing where your data is. Have I Been Pwned will tell you about breaches, but not about brokers reselling your data, and they only monitor email addresses.

And yes, you could probably go and ask the brokers directly, but that is certainly a lot of time and effort, so paying for it might make sense, assuming you trust the service provider.

That is correct, and we do help you identify where your data is for free. Many people unfortunately have their data exposed in lots of places,in which case manual removal is a PITA, and that's where the Plus plan comes in.

That is correct, with the additional note that Monitor has also existed for a while providing that functionality for free (in collaboration with HIBP), and will continue to do so for free, and worldwide.

The new thing is scanning for your info at data brokers (for free, but USA-only), and automatically removing them and continuously checking that they stay removed (paid, US only).

haveibeenpwned.com provides data breach monitoring, but does not remove personal info from data broker sites as Optery and Mozilla Monitor do.

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