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Firefox’s Private Relay service tests anonymous email alias feature
2020-05-05 09:33

Most people often still have only two email addresses, one for work and a personal address, and they are often sitting targets for spammers, scammers and nuisance emailers in the digital equivalent of 'we know where you live'.

When a form requires your email address, click the relay button to give an alias instead. We will forward emails from the alias to your real inbox.

Don't email services already offer email aliases?

In Gmail it's possible to register multiple email addresses, link each to a primary account, and then simply change the 'from' line when sending emails.

The innovation behind Firefox Relay is that instead of the user managing email aliases, the service does it for them.


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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/05/firefoxs-private-relay-service-tests-anonymous-email-alias-feature/