Security News > 2021 > November > Mozilla sprinkles Firefox Relay with Premium fairy dust

Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version of its Firefox Relay service, upping the current limit of five email aliases to a near-unlimited number.

Firefox Relay hides a user's real email address behind an alias to both protect the user's identity and spare their inbox from spam.

A relatively simple system, Firefox Relay sends and forwards incoming email from a user's alias email addresses to a primary email address, meaning that the primary address is kept hidden from prying eyes in favour of aliases.

Apple recently added a Hide My Email option to generate a random email address to forward messages to an actual address.

Firefox Relay is free up to those five email aliases - Apple's service is part of paid iCloud plan.

Once signed up, users receive a sub-domain alias from which any number of email aliases can be created.

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