Apple Clips VS Firefox Relay

> without requiring an email, phone number, login That's precisely what Apple's App Clips are. I've used these on several restaurant receipts and they're amazing: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/ You basically just scan the QR, checkout instantly with Apple Pay, and nothing to sign up for, and no horrible App to install. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

More places are doing this – some receipts I've gotten have QR codes that open little "App Clips" (on iPhone) where you can pay quickly with Apple Pay. So convenient and fast! Source: 12 months ago

If you don't have a particular app that you need to do something when you scan a code, it'll download and open just the relevant part of whatever app the code is linked to. Here's the overview of it. Source: about 1 year ago

App Clips: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/. Source: over 1 year ago

They’re called App Clips, even comes with a QR code: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/. Source: over 1 year ago

Other services like this one: addy.io or relay.firefox.com (no pgp, as I remember). - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

Firefox Relay is a handy assistant to at least stymie email tracking and is neatly integrated with the browser. The free tier gets you a few masked emails that forward to your actual inbox. You can't reply through the masked email without paying, but that might not be necessary for all. It feels like retaining some semblance of privacy is a losing battle. Data clean rooms are industry standard now and many... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

That isn't alarmist, but almost all privacy features in Brave are already in Firefox as well. Looking at this page: - Chromium customizations: Not necessary in Firefox - Client-side encryption for Brave Sync: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-sync-keeps-your-data-safe-even-if-tls-fails - DeAMPing: I think AMP has been dead for a few years now - Limiting network server calls: I think this is a bit... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity. Firefox Relay is a great way to do that :) https://relay.firefox.com Integrating that with Monitor is pretty high on at least my personal wish list. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

> In what ways has mozilla meaningfully dared to try and expand their revenue streams? I think that Mozilla VPN is pretty nice. It's based on Mullvad VPN, so they seem to know their audience (given that Mullvad has a pretty okay reputation among many tech savvy or privacy conscious folks, a lot of which probably use something like Firefox as well): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/ I guess there's also... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago