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Mozilla has announced a new feature for its popular Firefox web browser that it hopes will put an end to online spamming and tracking.
First launched in beta in August 2020 as an extension, Firefox Relay can mask your email address when you sign up for new accounts on websites, preventing third parties from direct direct access to your real email account.
With the new integration, users no longer need to access the admin dashboard to generate these email aliases; instead, Firefox Relay will prompt the user to use an existing mask or create a new one when they create an account on a web page.
Mask your email
The aliases that Firefox Relay creates forward messages to your actual email address, meaning you remain anonymous while still being able to take advantage of various sites and services online.
By having different aliases for different sites, you can easily delete new ones and create new ones if they start getting spam messages, without having to change your actual email account address.
And if your email is leaked in a data breach, all threat actors will have your alias and not your real email address, again protecting your privacy and anonymity.
So far, Mozilla claims that Firefox Relay has prevented more than two million spam and junk emails from appearing in users’ actual email accounts.
Unlike other similar third-party features, Firefox Relay also removes trackers from emails before forwarding them to your real email account.
To use this feature in Firefox, users must first sign in to Firefox Relay (opens in new tab), with free and paid tiers. The feature’s seamless integration with Firefox will gradually roll out to users and only apply to some websites, but will expand to all users and more sites by the end of the year.
Mozilla also recently announced Total Cookie Protection (opens in new tab) for Android users of Firefox, which stops sites from tracking your activity. This was already available on desktop versions of the browser, where each website you visit stores the cookies in their own separate “cookie jars”, so that websites cannot find out what information other websites have about you.
