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Mozilla will start to roll out integrated Firefox Relay

12 points by skilled 3y ago

bartvk 3y ago
Original title is: "Protect your information with email masks now available in Firefox". In essence, when you have the Relay add-on installed, you get an extra choice when filling in an e-mail address in any form: "protect your email". And it'll generate for example dufuerjhv@mozmail.com.
- Vinnl 3y ago
  The article is about the add-on no longer being necessary. It will provide some additional mask management features, but you can now also use Firefox Relay without it.
- rapnie 3y ago
  Similar service is provided by Protonmail (offered via SimpleLogin). Quite handy tool for all those various places that want you to sign up and aren't your day-to-day primary services.
lphillips0825 3y ago
You CANNOT deactivate an email with one click. If you delete an email address you would expect it to be dead. Not so—-if an email is sent to the address it is re-activated. I’ve reported this annoying behavior multiple times to no avail.
- Vinnl 3y ago
  (I work on Firefox Relay.) You can set a mask to blocked, after which it will no longer forward emails to you. If you do this before deleting the mask, they will not re-appear. Additionally, we recommend you to use the random (i.e. @mozmail.com) rather than custom (i.e. @<yoursubdomain>.mozmail.com) addresses if you can, since those are more anonymous, and those will also never re-appear. That said, we do hear this complaint, and we do have plans to prevent this from happening in the future. It's just hard to balance with a lot of other work (such as the Firefox integration).
Vinnl 3y ago
Firefox Relay is one of the projects I work on, so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask here - or email me at sntclb2au@mozmail.com :)
- LordShredda 3y ago
  Have you guys thought about domain name randomization? Other temp email sites regularly rotate domains to circumvent websites blacklisting known temporary email sites. Or is Firefox relay for a different use case that doesn't care about domain blocking?
  - Vinnl 3y ago
    Yes, that and a couple of other strategies are on our list of options to try in the never-ending journey to not get added to blocklists. That said, we have also seen success reaching out to website and blocklist compilers to get us delisted - we have an assortment of anti-abuse measures, and a different use case from true temporary email providers, that often make that successful. (Case in point: in practice I don't actually delete my email masks all that often, and thus they aren't actually temporary. The main protection is against data leaks and having a persistent identifier that allows my data at different services to be linked together.)

12 points by skilled 3y ago

Original title is: "Protect your information with email masks now available in Firefox". In essence, when you have the Relay add-on installed, you get an extra choice when filling in an e-mail address in any form: "protect your email". And it'll generate for example dufuerjhv@mozmail.com.

Vinnl 3y ago
The article is about the add-on no longer being necessary. It will provide some additional mask management features, but you can now also use Firefox Relay without it.
rapnie 3y ago
Similar service is provided by Protonmail (offered via SimpleLogin). Quite handy tool for all those various places that want you to sign up and aren't your day-to-day primary services.

lphillips0825 3y ago

You CANNOT deactivate an email with one click. If you delete an email address you would expect it to be dead. Not so—-if an email is sent to the address it is re-activated. I’ve reported this annoying behavior multiple times to no avail.

Vinnl 3y ago
(I work on Firefox Relay.) You can set a mask to blocked, after which it will no longer forward emails to you. If you do this before deleting the mask, they will not re-appear. Additionally, we recommend you to use the random (i.e. @mozmail.com) rather than custom (i.e. @<yoursubdomain>.mozmail.com) addresses if you can, since those are more anonymous, and those will also never re-appear. That said, we do hear this complaint, and we do have plans to prevent this from happening in the future. It's just hard to balance with a lot of other work (such as the Firefox integration).

Vinnl 3y ago

Firefox Relay is one of the projects I work on, so if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask here - or email me at sntclb2au@mozmail.com :)

LordShredda 3y ago
Have you guys thought about domain name randomization? Other temp email sites regularly rotate domains to circumvent websites blacklisting known temporary email sites. Or is Firefox relay for a different use case that doesn't care about domain blocking?
- Vinnl 3y ago
  Yes, that and a couple of other strategies are on our list of options to try in the never-ending journey to not get added to blocklists. That said, we have also seen success reaching out to website and blocklist compilers to get us delisted - we have an assortment of anti-abuse measures, and a different use case from true temporary email providers, that often make that successful. (Case in point: in practice I don't actually delete my email masks all that often, and thus they aren't actually temporary. The main protection is against data leaks and having a persistent identifier that allows my data at different services to be linked together.)