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Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by srhngpr »

pigeons wrote: post #98
srhngpr wrote: post #76

I think TextNow offers a better solution and I've been using it to do this for quite some time and it doesn't require any kind of forwarding. I can send/receive calls and messages directly from within its app and recycle numbers at any time - all for free (ad supported). Calls are of great quality too and it even includes voicemail. If I really like a number and want to lock it (to also receive 2FA codes), it's a yea…

I silently miss so many incoming calls with TextNow and from reviews it seems I'm not the only one, but I don't really know another option for a Canadian number.

I have heard similar things from friends that use it on iOS but on Android, I haven't missed any call I was expecting. Even when I've lost connection to data (e.g., in an elevator or something) and a call was made, at least I see the missed call notification after my data was restored. Fongo is another option for a Canadian option.

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by pigeons »

srhngpr wrote: post #101
pigeons wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I silently miss so many incoming calls with TextNow and from reviews it seems I'm not the only one, but I don't really know another option for a Canadian number.

I have heard similar things from friends that use it on iOS but on Android, I haven't missed any call I was expecting. Even when I've lost connection to data (e.g., in an elevator or something) and a call was made, at least I see the missed call notification after my data was restored. Fongo is another option for a Canadian option.

Thanks. I use Android.

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by arrosenberg »

pigeons wrote: post #96
arrosenberg wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.

I can't tell if /s is missing or not but Mozilla had a standalone password manager eventually it changed its name to Lockwise, and once all my passwords were in it, they sunsetted it even quicker than a google product.

I actually had no idea they did that, that's how short-lived and poorly advertised it must have been :)

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by LeoPanthera »

zaik wrote: post #95
LeoPanthera wrote: post #34

Maybe this is a good place to ask: I'm a British expat living in the USA, and for a while now I've wanted a service which provides a British phone number, and forwards calls and texts to my US number, while also allowing me to send texts and make calls "from" the UK number if I want to. It looks like I might be able to do this with Twilio, but I'm not a developer, and quickly got frustrated trying to build what I wan…

Have you tried https://jmp.chat ?

No, because they don't provide UK numbers.

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by mr_woozy »

pigeons wrote: post #96
arrosenberg wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.

I can't tell if /s is missing or not but Mozilla had a standalone password manager eventually it changed its name to Lockwise, and once all my passwords were in it, they sunsetted it even quicker than a google product.

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Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by anotherrandom »

Just set up an email service and everything and start offering similiarities to Google's web ecosystem already. Mozilla doesn't need to worry about devices or a cloud division, or even a search engine (yet? Brave has one).

The slower they are to realize they need to do all that to stay relevant, the faster Firefox's market share shrinks

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by tblflpr »

Right, because adding *more* anonymity to our tech is precisely what we need to enable more bad actors to do whatever they want without facing any repercussions.

slow clap

I am all for privacy, but many so-called privacy-centric tech “solutions” are simultaneously crime-enablers. Things need to be fixed at the legislative level, not by opening more pandora’s meta-crypto-app-boxes.

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by easrng »

pigeons wrote: post #96
arrosenberg wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.

I can't tell if /s is missing or not but Mozilla had a standalone password manager eventually it changed its name to Lockwise, and once all my passwords were in it, they sunsetted it even quicker than a google product.

It's still a thing, they only got rid of the standalone app. Now it's just part of the actual Firefox app though you can apparently use it to autofill in other apps on android at least.

Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay

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Post by prng2021 »

Is someone at Mozilla willing to share some technical details about how this is implemented under the covers? The main thing I’m curious about is:

Can the ability to have multiple relay numbers tied to 1 real number be added relatively easily by scaling your technical architecture, or is there some non-marginal underlying cost to each additional relay number that would make such a feature too expensive to support at this price point?

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