Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
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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
#2This is cool. I've recently been thinking about getting a "burner" number for sharing outside my immediate circle.
Same for email - the idea would be to have a phone/email for public consumption and then a separate address and number for my inner circle of family/friends.
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#3I like what Mozilla has been doing with their services, but they have built a very confusing business model of many micro services that I just don't see a ton of people signing up for as independent subscriptions.
Why not bundle them all as one membership? Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Relay, Monitor, and whatever services they can scrape up premium options and features for to give them value?
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#4We need this service available in Brazil like... yesterday. Robocalls are reaching unbearable levels.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#5I don't understand the idea behind it.
Now:
1) You give your real number to someone.
2) Somehow your real number goes into a list used by robo-callers.
3) A robo-call arrives on your real number, disturbing your peace.
After:
0) You give Mozilla 3.99 or 4.99 US$/month
1) You give your Mozilla number to someone.
2) Somehow your Mozilla number goes into a list used by robo-callers.
3) A robo-call arrives on your Mozilla number, that promptly relays it to your real number, disturbing your peace.
You cannot change your Mozilla number, so it is basically an "alias" number, where is the advantage?
Stopping paying so that the number becomes invalid?
But then you won't be reachable anymore by the people you gave that number to.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#6We need this service available in Brazil like... yesterday. Robocalls are reaching unbearable levels.
Wouldn’t that just increase the number of calls, now that you can receive them on multiple numbers?
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#7This is cool. I've recently been thinking about getting a "burner" number for sharing outside my immediate circle. Same for email - the idea would be to have a phone/email for public consumption and then a separate address and number for my inner circle of family/friends.
Same. Though for email there are good services like Fastmail (and likely many others) which already offer this and other benefits for a nominal subscription fee.
I haven't implemented this idea yet, but what stops us from just buying Twilio credits, getting a number through them and then writing a bit of glue code to their API to pull down SMS messages (for things like 2-factor codes, etc) and route them wherever we find personally convenient? Maybe Twilio is also selling our customer data paired with these numbers to data brokers, though, IDK. It's just a fleeting idea I've had.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#8This is cool. I've recently been thinking about getting a "burner" number for sharing outside my immediate circle. Same for email - the idea would be to have a phone/email for public consumption and then a separate address and number for my inner circle of family/friends.
If you put your real phone number in your Resume and share it with a recruiter, consider your phone number public.
Also LinkedIn will give away your contact details.
Your Bank or any service important to you may get hacked and your phone number leaked.
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#9I don't understand the idea behind it. Now: 1) You give your real number to someone. 2) Somehow your real number goes into a list used by robo-callers. 3) A robo-call arrives on your real number, disturbing your peace. After: 0) You give Mozilla 3.99 or 4.99 US$/month 1) You give your Mozilla number to someone. 2) Somehow your Mozilla number goes into a list used by robo-callers. 3) A robo-call arrives on your Mozill…
I think the idea is to give your real email and phone number to real friends and family; then you use the relayed one with online services who might sell or lose the data. Then you could presumably ditch the related info after the spam gets to be too much? Or maybe you just do it to be more anonymous?
It’s like the concept of a “burner phone” I think
Re: Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
#10I like what Mozilla has been doing with their services, but they have built a very confusing business model of many micro services that I just don't see a ton of people signing up for as independent subscriptions. Why not bundle them all as one membership? Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Relay, Monitor, and whatever services they can scrape up premium options and features for to give them value?
(Mozilla Privacy & Security ENGR) Stay tuned ... :)