Firefox Relay Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

  Mozilla's email-related service is https://relay.firefox.com/ which obviously needs to rely on quite a bit of Mozilla infrastructure in its default incarnation, and is probably a fair bit harder to self-host than Firefox Sync. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer

  Https://relay.firefox.com/ may be a tool for that. I never used it, as I use a catch-all, but may use it in the future. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I built a tool that helps people contact you without spam

  Are you aware of Firefox Relay[0]? It seems you have extra features, but their plan is priced at 0.99€. For what I need it seems Relay is just enough. About the site, those blocks under the "Say goodbye to spam and stop cold emails." heading are impossible to read, and the effect on mouseover don't make it any easier. Good luck with your endeavour :) [0] https://relay.firefox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page

  One small way I support Mozilla is to pay for Firefox Relay https://relay.firefox.com. It's $1/month and you get a lot of value for that. Being able to create email aliases on the fly to keep your real email private is worth a lot to me! I also support Thunderbird with a recurring monthly donation. We have to create the world we want to live in. When I discovered open source software around the year 2000 I was... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Protect your emails (short note)

  Other services like this one: addy.io or relay.firefox.com (no pgp, as I remember). - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It

  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 / over 2 years ago

• Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

  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 / over 2 years ago

• Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

  > 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 / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How can we help Firefox not to dissapear?

  > 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 / almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Streaming Player Replacement for Roku?

  I've been dragging around a similar concern. My solution might be to use Mozilla's Relay for the email and Privacy.com for the credit card. https://relay.firefox.com/ https://privacy.com/ That won't stop the data collection but it should mitigate how useful it is. Maybe? - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• I stay reasonably anonymous online

  Firefox Relay offers "randomized" phone numbers along with its emails: https://relay.firefox.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Decky Loader Cloud Saves

  It has access to your entire account. I created a new microsoft account via https://relay.firefox.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Thirsty websites

  I use Firefox Relay for that. You get a Mozilla email and it forwards those to your actual email, keeping your actual one a secret. Source: about 3 years ago

• Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud

  There's also Relay. I believe you can buy it alone or bundled with their VPN. https://relay.firefox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Incredible Connection and Everyshop customer data leaked online

  There are also relay services that are helpful. I use Firefox Relay, but there are others. Source: about 3 years ago

• See your identity pieced together from stolen data

  Yeah, nothing you can do about breaches that have happened, but there are precautions you can take to minimise the risk of breaches going forward - for example using a service that hides your email address and creates a fake one to give to companies, with any messages being forwarded to your real email, Firefox Relay and Apple's Hide My Email do this, and I'm sure there are others. Companies will only ever see... Source: about 3 years ago

• Want to donate to OSS. Where should it go? Multiple small donations, or a few larger donations? Who do you donate to?

  I'm using Firefox Relay since it launched and it's genuinely awesome. Highly recommend that for $0.99/month. Source: over 3 years ago

• Do you use your VPN daily?

  Https://relay.firefox.com/ you can still join the waiting list for FF Relay phone numbers edition if you’d like. Source: over 3 years ago

• LPT: Type the website name before your first name when creating online accounts so you know who leaked your data.

  Yes! Firefox Relay ftw! Though I'll be checking the others that you mentioned. Source: over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Is there an online service which gives you a personal number for SMS?

  Mozilla has Firefox Relay. I have tried yet, but I very curious. https://relay.firefox.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• YSK: LinkedIn will share your suspected phone number with recruiters even when no phone number is used (2fa/ app). Opt out in "Visibility settings" by changing "discovery via phone number" to Nobody.

  Firefox has a phone relay service Relay.Firefox. Source: over 3 years ago