A friend of mine does it the hardcore way, through DNS. He adds MX records for subdomains corresponding to the name of the site he's signing up for. Lets say his domain name is example.com:
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and so on
He also does it for friends(!) meaning when he gives you "his" email, it's always of the form bob@<yourname>.example.com
If he tires of you or your comms get too spammy, he just bins the relevant DNS record. No more mail from you!
The service is awesome but it's quite confusing to know which one to use on which websites and which one to delete etc
If you use the extension [1] [2], it can also store them locally if you want, and it will automatically track where you used the addresses, rather than you having to manually label them.
And finally, if you have Relay Premium, you can claim your own subdomain, and come up with an arbitrary address name (e.g. "[email protected]"), but since that's less anonymous than a random address, we recommend only using that if you need to come up with an address on the spot in the real world.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/private-relay/
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/firefox-relay/lknp...
I did recently build a waitlist, so you can sign up to be notified when it becomes available in your country. We're not linking to it from anywhere yet, but if you promise not to tell (just kidding), you can already find it at https://relay.firefox.com/premium/waitlist/.
Do you believe DDG will also eventually move to the subscription model for these features (unlimited aliases, reply to sender)?
- You need to use their app or browser extension to use it. (You can use Relay using just the website at https://relay.firefox.com.)
- Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas DDG is a for-profit company. (Though I should add that I'm a happy user of DDG search, and that I think they're pretty great.)
- There might still be a waitlist?
- Relay Premium has features like your own custom subdomain so you can come up with new addresses on the fly, the ability to reply to forwarded emails without revealing your address, unlimited addresses, of which I don't know whether DDG's service has them.
- On the other hand, Relay doesn't block trackers yet (but incidentally, that's the feature I'm working on right now).
- And of course, by subscribing to Relay Premium, you can support Mozilla and make it less reliant on Google :)
So yeah, not a particularly helpful comparison, since I'm not too familiar with their offering, sorry.
(Disclosure: I work on Firefox Relay :) And yes, I know some people also have their own domain with unlimited email addresses.)