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02/06/2023
So I have been toying with the idea of testing Mozilla's relatively new Firefox Relay.
If you don't know what this is here is your TLDR.
It masks your actual email address with a disposable one. Any email sent to and from (if you subscribe to premium) will be sent to you actual account.
This gives you a very valuable layer of abstraction from you real email address.
You get 5 email addresses.
You can't set your own domain or name before the @mozmail.com it will be a random string of letters and numbers.
You can't reply
Will cost you just under a $1 a month if you pre-pay for the year otherwise $1.99 per month, Which I think is very reasonable.
You get unlimited emails addresses.
You can reply
The format for you emails is [any_name]@[any_domain].mozmail.com
It will check if your chosen domain is available upon setup and let you know you can only chose once and can't change this again later. So chose wisely.
You can chose to install a extension in Firefox to generate new addresses on the fly or select one you have already set up. All very convenient.
You can also name your email masks so you know what you have used them for in your Relay dashboard.
Mozilla has come in for quite a lot of criticism and in some cases very well deserved. I haven not had an account on Firefox for many years, but been a Firefox user. This feels like a nice way to support any alternative web browser in light of overwhelming dominance of Googles Chrome with Blink 60% and Firefox running at under 3% market share. This is the first paid service Mozilla have offered that I think I will use regularly. There also is a waiting list for a phone masking service which I have added my name to. No other details re cost for this that I can find yet.
This is a very powerful tool in your arsenal to regain some of your privacy back on the Internet. Why not try the free version to see if you like it.
Other open source alternatives to consider:
You get 10 aliases with the free account and the Premium account is $30/year or $4 billed monthly.