“Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.”
Firefox, the popular web browser of Mozilla gets a new feature, Firefox Relay, to prevent tracking and email spam. Mozilla hopes for ending the email spamming and online tracking of its users.
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This new feature, Firefox Relay was first unrolled in the beta version in August 202 as an extension. Firefox Relay can mask the email addresses of users when they sign up for new accounts on websites, disabling third parties to get direct access to their real email accounts.
With this new feature, Firefox users now don’t need to have access to the management dashboard to generate these email aliases. Rather than this, Firefox Relay will encourage users of the browser to use an existing mask to make a new one while creating an account on a webpage.
Masking Your Email
These aliases that the new Firefox feature makes forward messages to the user’s real email address, which means users remain anonymous while still being able to get advantages from various websites, and services online.
By having different aliases for different sites, users can easily delete and create new ones if they get spam messages without changing their actual email account address.
And in case your email is exposed to data breaches, then all the threat actors have is your alias instead of your actual email address, protecting their privacy and anonymity.
Till today, Mozilla claims that the new feature has prevented more than two million spam and unwanted emails from appearing in actual email accounts of users.
Unlike other similar features from other tech giants, Firefox Relay also removes trackers from emails before moving them forward to the user’s real email account.
Users need to first sign up for using this feature in Firefox, which includes free and paid tiers.
