When signing up for a new service, everyone wonders whether it is safe to provide your personal details. A piece of important personal information that you should protect while signing up for a new service includes your email address.
If a bad actor got hold of your email address, they will be able to use it for spamming and collect more personal information about you available on the internet.
Crating a throwaway email account for you to try a new website is difficult. While some email providers limit the number of email accounts that a user can create under one mobile number.
Firefox relay
Mozilla is a service that works hard to protect user privacy on the internet. They are the creators of the privacy-friendly web browser Firefox.
Recently, Firefox launched a new service called Firefox relay.
“Firefox relay” is a browser extension that helps you to signup for websites without using your real email address.
When you have the Firefox relay extension installed, whenever you signup for a website, Firefox relay will generate a random @relay.firefox.com email address.
All emails that are sent to the @relay.firefox.com email address will be forwarded to your personal email address.
How to use Firefox relay
To use Firefox relay, you need to have the Mozilla Firefox browser installed.
If you are using Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge at the time of writing there are no Firefox relay extensions that support Chrome or Safari or Microsoft Edge.
- Download Mozilla Firefox from – https://firefox.com
- Install the Firefox relay extension from the Firefox extension store – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay/
- Signup for a Mozilla account, and make sure you signup for a Mozilla account with your real email address. Because all the emails will be forwarded to this email address.
- That’s it
Whenever you try to sign up for a website, this icon will appear in the email input box.
When you click Relay icon, Firefox relay will generate a random @raly.firefox.com email address for you, that you can now use to signup for that website.
Is Firefox relay safe?
Yes, because Firefox is made by Mozilla, one of the most privacy-friendly non-profit organizations, you don’t have to worry about using Firefox relay.