Email alias services are to be found on the Web. Add to this mix now is Firefox Relay, a privacy-first & free product that hides your real email address to help protect your identity. This one is a free product but also now comes with a new paid Premium service offering.
Firefox Relay is a free email alias service available at relay.firefox.com where you’ll get five email aliases to use whenever you sign-up for an online account. Over the last year, the team has been experimenting with Firefox Relay, a smart solution that can preserve the privacy of your email address. Firefox Relay was initially rolled out to a beta phase for early adopters who like to test new products.
How This Email Alias Service Works
Firefox Relay will send & forward your email messages from your alias email addresses to your primary email address. Mozilla says it does not read or keep any of the Content in your messages, & all email messages are deleted after they’re sent & delivered to you.
With Firefox Relay, you’ll get 5 free email aliases and up to 150 kb attachments. You can sign up for Firefox Relay here or download it as an add-on. Additionally, it has the ability for labels to be synced across devices. Labels allow you to add information like an account name or a description so it’ll be easier for you to know which sites you are using the alias for. With this new syncing, you’ll be able to see these labels on all your devices, including mobile.
To bring protection to more people, Firefox Relay will now be available in the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, English, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian & Welsh.
The idea to introduce a premium addition to this service came during the beta testing phase, says Firefox. ‘We heard from many users who wanted more email address aliases. So, we decided to offer a Premium service where subscribers will receive one subdomain alias to create unlimited email aliases,” it said on its official blog.
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