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Re:Firefox Relay by Bishonen88 on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:11AM (#25903988)
And what happens when FireFox decides to drop this option 1-2 years into the future? I reckon they'll give time to change the email address on all the pages one used it for, but still...

nvm, it's in the FAQ:

"What happens if Mozilla shuts down the Firefox Relay service?

We will give you advance notice that you need to change the email address of any accounts that are using Relay aliases."

Note that one cannot reply using this service (yet). So the whole anonymity is gone as soon as one wants to contact some service without disclosing the real address (?)

Re:Firefox Relay by groovecoder on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:16PM (#25905837)
Howdy. I'm the tech lead on Relay. We're working on replies right now:

https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/pull/770

Re:Firefox Relay by lecarore on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:37PM (#25909917)
While you're here, can you test the relay dashboard (where you can create aliases) on Firefox for Android 84.1.4 ? The scroll is incredibly sluggish, I don't know what scroll effect you added but please have a look. It's a bit unfortunate for a Mozilla service ^^ I can provide you a screen capture if needed.
Re:Firefox Relay by groovecoder on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:03PM (#25919819)
Can you file that here so I don't forget?

https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay

Re:Firefox Relay by m-p-3 on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:47AM (#25904527)
> And what happens when FireFox decides to drop this option 1-2 years into the future?

The same thing if any other company did it. That said, I do hope they'll offer an option to pay for more email relays which could also ensure its viability. Having 5 relays for free is nice, but I'd personally use a unique address per service.

Re:Firefox Relay by eloisant on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:14AM (#25904861)
I'm probably going to use it for "throw-away" email. As in, I just need to receive a link right now so the service think they have my real address, after that the alias might as well be trashed.

The only thing I'm worried is that this domain will soon be blacklisted by services (especially those I don't want to give my email address to).

Re:Firefox Relay by josepmdc on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:22AM (#25904956)
For that use case you can just use a temporary email provider like temp-mail.org which are harder to blacklist since they have a lot of random domains.
Re:Firefox Relay by PufPufPuf on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:33PM (#25920110)
Firefox Relay seems easier to use, thanks to the one-click generated emails by the browser extension and the fact that the emails arrive in your actual inbox. But I agree that the domain is going to land on all the blacklists -- I hope they implement alternative domains for this reason.
Re:Firefox Relay by SamuelAdams on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:27AM (#25905019)
Yep I often use "ten minute mail" for this too.
Re:Firefox Relay by tyingq on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:57AM (#25904636)
I do miss Firefox Send.
Re:Firefox Relay by decrypt on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:03AM (#25904728)
Same. I have been using Tresorit Send [1] and Visée's (developer of ffsend CLI tool) Firefox Send instance [2] in the meantime. Visée is also looking for donations [3] to support hosting of that instance.

[1] https://send.tresorit.com

[2] https://send.visee.com

[3] https://gitlab.com/timvisee/ffsend/-/issues/100#note_3763163...

Re:Firefox Relay by PufPufPuf on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:49AM (#25918019)
The correct URL for the Firefox Send instance is https://send.vis.ee/
Re:Firefox Relay by timvisee on Friday January 29, 2021 @06:54PM (#25964455)
Thanks for mentioning Send and ffsend!

Yeah, the instance is available at: https://send.vis.ee/

Re:Firefox Relay by lights0123 on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:10PM (#25905742)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25524472 is certainly not a complete replacement, but most of the time I used it locally so that would work.
Re:Firefox Relay by Whitecoyote on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:46AM (#25917118)
I miss it too, it was so convenient. I use https://transfer.sh instead.
Re:Firefox Relay by maxrovertsb on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:24AM (#25904177)
It's nice that they are being transparent about it.
Re:Firefox Relay by r2b2 on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:01PM (#25910136)
Founder of Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io] here. It's easy for me to promise Owl Mail will not shut down without significant advanced notice (hopefully that never happens, but if it does I will provide a clear transition plan for all users).

As a token of confidence, I've moved all ~150 of my online accounts (including all banking, financial, and healthcare accounts) to Owl Mail – it needs to exist for my life to operate smoothly.

Re:Firefox Relay by neogodless on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:27PM (#25910393)
From your home page I get the impression you only support having generated @owlmail.io email addresses. Is that accurate?

Does your system track which online service gets which email, or do you track that yourself in a password manager?

Re:Firefox Relay by r2b2 on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:20PM (#25997122)
1. Yes, only @owlmail.io domains for now. But, Owl Mail will allow for custom domains soon.

2. An upcoming feature will enable the creation of sender 'allow' and 'deny' lists for each Owl Mail address (With default sender 'allow' lists for top sites). Currently I track my account credentials in a password manager. A browser extension is also on Owl Mail's roadmap.

Re:Firefox Relay by megous on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:46PM (#25906985)
You usually don't need the address you registered some account with to change account email to something else.

Services usually just verify you control the new email address.

Re:Firefox Relay by mk89 on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:53AM (#25904591)
Just a proper email provider that offers this features. Fastmail, GMX, ...