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Where can you "look up" your number? There was something recently around a game which was able to detect if a user's phone number was on a prepaid or postpaid plan. I had no idea carriers share this information with others.
https://www.freecarrierlookup.com
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Even if it was identical i'd be interested simply because it isn't Google. I used to have Google Voice.
Its not identical because it’s metered and you have to give a credit card. Why would someone pay for this? Just to stick it to google?
Why do i pay for email? To not use Google. How is "paying for your service" so obscure to you?
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>This is definitely just the first step; we've got lots of ideas for additional protections we could add, and are monitoring usage and feedback [1] to inform our roadmap. Yes, and I don't doubt in the least that it may become the third best thing in life after icecream and sliced bread, but right now its usage cases and advantages seem not clear. Maybe it could be useful to people that lose/get stolen their phone/num…
Like email masks, we recommend using the phone mask for untrusted organisations. In other words, if you need to provide a phone number to get a shopping coupon, use your Relay number. If your bank wants to do 2FA via SMS (please no, but you know how banks are...), provide your true number. Now, if you get a phishing attempt that looks like it's from your bank, but it's sent to your Relay number, that should be an add…
For e-mails, a strategy I used and that worked (at a time I had a domain with its own mail server) is to give a "non-existing" e-mail, like specificsite@mydomain.com, the mail server was set to have a "catch-all" account, so specificsite@mydomain.com would arrive (together with messages to anything@mydomain.com, etc.) to this catch-all inbox, while identifying by the address used the "source".
With telephone numbers, a possibility would be to fake a PBX with internal numbers (no idea if it is feasible) i.e. if the relay main number is 123456789, have it working with added "internal" numbers, such as 123456789101, 123456789102, etc.
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Like email masks, we recommend using the phone mask for untrusted organisations. In other words, if you need to provide a phone number to get a shopping coupon, use your Relay number. If your bank wants to do 2FA via SMS (please no, but you know how banks are...), provide your true number. Now, if you get a phishing attempt that looks like it's from your bank, but it's sent to your Relay number, that should be an add…
Still, I see no differences with a second number/burner phone. For e-mails, a strategy I used and that worked (at a time I had a domain with its own mail server) is to give a "non-existing" e-mail, like specificsite@mydomain.com, the mail server was set to have a "catch-all" account, so specificsite@mydomain.com would arrive (together with messages to anything@mydomain.com, etc.) to this catch-all inbox, while identi…
That's because that's essentially what this is :)
And yes, that's how Relay for email works (although instead of using mydomain.com, you use mozmail.com, so your different email masks can't be linked together).
We'd definitely like to support a similar pattern for phones, but we still have to figure out a way to do that. Using extensions is one thing we'll be looking at (was also suggested at [1]), but a challenge there is that many services have rather strict validation rules on phone numbers that will disallow that. But it might still be worth it, so stay tuned!
[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-relay-pho...