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by flurdy 2558 days ago
I thought the same when I initially was prompted about Firefox monitor at the bottom of Firefox's new tab page.

Was a little peeved at what seemed like a copy, but I have now realised it is just building on top of Troy's work [1] which is even better because of Firefox's larger reach.

They don't have to have a blinking marque text at the top attributing it to Have I Been Pwned. But they could have mentioned it on the front page somewhere that HIBP is one of their main sources. I trust HIBP, therefore, more value to Firefox Monitor had I known that link.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...

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> I trust HIBP, therefore, more value to Firefox Monitor had I known that link.

If you trust HiBP, you don't really need Firefox Monitor. It was created specifically to reach people that HiBP could not reach.