Firefox Adds Masking to Better Help With Email Spam and Tracking
Firefox Adds Masking to Better Help With Email Spam and Tracking
Firefox Relay is bringing its email masking and protections to all Firefox Account users with direct browser integration.
Proton Pass has a similar feature, I love it. But Spotify had banned my account and asked me to email them from the alias to unlock it, which is not possible. So you should be careful with that. A lot of companies employ anti-privacy practices.
48You can login to the SimpleLogin.io interface and setup reverse aliases even if you create them in proton pass. They don't have the integration fully down yet so it's clunky but it works.
35I didn't know that was possible. Thanks for sharing!
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Were you using simplelogin.io, which is part of Proton? It is actually possible to reply or send mails from the aliases you create there. The feature is called reverse-alias.
19SimpleLogin does allow you to send emails from your alias, though
7If you’re talking about a SimpleLogin, you CAN email from it. I forget the exact terminology (I can check if you need) but you can generate a forward address that you email and the receiver (Spotify) will see it as If you have emailed from your forwarding address.
6Can’t you make a reverse alias through the SimpleLogin ui? Since that’s what proton pass uses for the aliases.
3If you use fastmail and a custom domain it automagically lets you reply to email from the email they sent you. i.e. if you have COMPANYA@mydomain.com and you reply to one of their emails it comes from COMPANYA@mydomain.com
Most paid email providers let you setup a custom domain with a catch all address, its worth it. Not all have this handy reply email feature, and you have to configure a custom response address, annoying it but works too
2SimpleLogin/ProtonPass also let's you reply to any email from your alias, but you need to set up a reverse alias if you aren't replying.
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Anyone signed up for one of Relay's paid subscription options will also be able to reply to emails anonymously . . . A free account will allow for up to five email masks and remove trackers for you, with additional protections available for paid subscription tiers.
DuckDuckGo has the best free solution ATM IMHO, if you don't mind the RNGd names: "unlimited" aliases, reply-ability, and trackers removed.
9Random email addresses are a better idea anyway; as soon as you personalise them, that makes them traceable to you again.
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Firefox Relay is not free, hence why it has premium feature. Anonymous email replies and blocking promotional emails? tough shit, pay to block.
5It has both a free and a Premium plan. The free plan gives you five email masks; Premium (€1 a month) gives you unlimited masks, and indeed email replies and the ability to block promotional emails.
5No thanks, new kid in town https://skiff.com already provides that feature
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I mean I won't use it because I don't trust Mozilla with full access to all my websites, but I like that they have some monetization build in so that they can diversify the income and not only get money from Google.
But I still think that Thunderbird is doing it better by asking for donations.
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