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Re: Firefox Relay

#91

Post by propogandist »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #49
the_duke wrote: post #26

I've been using this pattern for years. I have a custom domain just for signups, and I sign up with [service].[username]@customdomain. The domain simply has a catchall email "accounts@customdomain" Combined with a password manager (Bitwarden) this is absolutely brilliant. * Spam: if I get any spam, I know exactly which company is responsible, whether directly, through selling user data or because of breaches. And I c…

Word of advice for anybody doing this: make sure you have a way to SEND email using one of your aliased addresses - because one day you will find a critical service provider can't process your emailed attachments unless sent from your registered email address (e.g. insurance claim document, bank documents, etc.)

fastmail supports this, but only if using their [web] app or website.

Re: Firefox Relay

#92

Post by sciurus »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #12

I'm conflicted about this. For me, the best implementation of private alias is the Apple one: %randomwords%[at]icloud.com. It's way harder to wildcard block [at]icloud.com, as there are legit users of the icloud domain, than a wildcard block for: [at]mozmail.com. Unfortunately, using the apple implementation is just one more stone into their walled garden. I really wish firefox could create a legit free [at]firefox (…

> 1. They bought Pocket (which I loved) and now it's on life support.

Why do you say it's on life support?

Re: Firefox Relay

#94

Post by unicornporn »

What the f. Do they even want users. I can not create a Firefox Account. Every register page is a login page. When I enter an email and a password it expects an existing account (which I do not have). This is beyond belief.

Re: Firefox Relay

#95

Post by drdaeman »

> Your own email domain youremail@yourdomain.mozmail.com

I don't understand why would one want to pay for a step down in privacy, voluntarily adding an identifier that allows to track them. The only thing it does is adding some extra information about the alias owner - something that does not make any sense to me, given that the whole point of the service is to obscure users' identities.

I would understand really using my own domain (not this falsey advertising - "foo.mozmail.com" is not something I "own") rather than Mozilla-provided subdomain of theirs. Yea, that would also counter the privacy but at least there's a tradeoff - I retain control of that domain, so if I'm unhappy with Mozilla I still have the email addresses.

Re: Firefox Relay

#96

Post by abraham »

unicornporn wrote: post #94

What the f. Do they even want users. I can not create a Firefox Account. Every register page is a login page. When I enter an email and a password it expects an existing account (which I do not have). This is beyond belief.

If it's asking for a password then you do have an account. Try triggering a password reset.

Re: Firefox Relay

#97

Post by ssalazars »

antihero wrote: post #8

This is cool, however, personally I feel like for my use case that integration with 1Password and Fastmail is better because I don't want to depend on a browser that I cannot use everywhere to manage this. In the same way that I avoid Sign in with Apple - what am I supposed to do when I need to Sign in without Apple?! I find 1P+FM is a much more cross-platform solution. However, I commend Firefox for creating this fu…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would still need to pay $3 USD/mo for Fastmail even if you use 1P. Whereas with Relay, it's 0.99 USD/mo, and no need to migrate my existing email to any other service.

Re: Firefox Relay

#98

Post by judge2020 »

arepublicadoceu wrote: post #12

I'm conflicted about this. For me, the best implementation of private alias is the Apple one: %randomwords%[at]icloud.com. It's way harder to wildcard block [at]icloud.com, as there are legit users of the icloud domain, than a wildcard block for: [at]mozmail.com. Unfortunately, using the apple implementation is just one more stone into their walled garden. I really wish firefox could create a legit free [at]firefox (…

> 2. They created an awesome private file sharing service (firefox send) and quickly butchered it.

Thankfully it was MPL licensed[0] and has an active fork[1]. The only problem is that Mozilla requested their trademarks Mozilla/Firefox be removed, so finding this fork is a bit hard on Google.

0: https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/LICENSE

1: https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send

Re: Firefox Relay

#99

Post by Y_Y »

hawski wrote: post #86
MickyTheMouse wrote: post #19

You can create aliases on Gmail with "+". firstname.lastname+spam@gmail.com. Probably works with other email providers too.

I use this scheme. I have a separate account (x@example.com), were I only give addresses with aliases (x+N-RANDOM-LETTERS@example.com). There are of course broken sites, that do not allow + in the e-mail address. Also Bolt (bolt-rider.com) ignores the alias and just sends to the base address (x@example.com).

You can also add dots ('.') anywhere in a gmail address and still have it delivered. You can use an unary encoding of your random letters if necessary.

Re: Firefox Relay

#100

Post by heresie-dabord »

the_duke wrote: post #26

I've been using this pattern for years. I have a custom domain just for signups, and I sign up with [service].[username]@customdomain. The domain simply has a catchall email "accounts@customdomain" Combined with a password manager (Bitwarden) this is absolutely brilliant. * Spam: if I get any spam, I know exactly which company is responsible, whether directly, through selling user data or because of breaches. And I c…

The functionality isn't easy to discover, but you can use an account at outlook.live.com (MS) to create e-mail aliases.

You can manage the aliases within the same parent account.

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