Re:Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox R...
by Vinnl on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:13AM
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> Still, I see no differences with a second number/burner phone.
That's because that's essentially what this is :)
And yes, that's how Relay for email works (although instead of using mydomain.com, you use mozmail.com, so your different email masks can't be linked together).
We'd definitely like to support a similar pattern for phones, but we still have to figure out a way to do that. Using extensions is one thing we'll be looking at (was also suggested at [1]), but a challenge there is that many services have rather strict validation rules on phone numbers that will disallow that. But it might still be worth it, so stay tuned!
[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-relay-pho...
For e-mails, a strategy I used and that worked (at a time I had a domain with its own mail server) is to give a "non-existing" e-mail, like [email protected], the mail server was set to have a "catch-all" account, so [email protected] would arrive (together with messages to [email protected], etc.) to this catch-all inbox, while identifying by the address used the "source".
With telephone numbers, a possibility would be to fake a PBX with internal numbers (no idea if it is feasible) i.e. if the relay main number is 123456789, have it working with added "internal" numbers, such as 123456789101, 123456789102, etc.