We create memberships on many sites in daily life. Sometimes these sites are permanent, and sometimes we just look and leave. But do we have to give our e-mail address to every site that requests membership? While even the world’s leading sites are being attacked by cyber attacks and personal e-mail addresses are floundering; How can we secure our e-mail addresses?
Mozillanon-profit users creating applications and software that respect security and privacy a community. Another innovation from Mozilla, which produces products such as Firefox Browser, Firefox Monitor, Mozilla VPN and Facebook Container: Firefox Relay Service. With this application developed by Mozilla and offered to users free of charge, we can keep all the control without sharing our personal e-mail addresses with any site.
So how do we achieve this control? Quite simply: Firefox Relay; creates an e-mail address that acts as a hyperlink. The service that identifies these random Firefox extension email addresses to us; protects our personal email addresses. Messages sent to the e-mail addresses defined for us are also forwarded to our personal e-mail addresses. In short, Firefox Relay, building a bridge between us and third parties; It hides our identity.
Although it may seem like a Temp Mail or derivative at first glance, the essence of the matter is not quite like that. Although we obtain a random e-mail address in software such as Temp Mail; There was confusion and difficulty as messages were sent to this randomly generated email address. Firefox Relay welcomes us with a different alternative. When you log in to the system with your Firefox account, you are given a username and e-mail. After simply making the necessary settings; Every message sent on behalf of this user is forwarded to your personal e-mail address. Briefly; Again, we use our personal e-mail address, but there is an intermediary e-mail address to ensure our security and privacy.
How to use Firefox Relay?
- Firstly; As a browser to take advantage of the Firefox Relay service You don’t have to use Firefox. We connect to the login page of Firefox Relay from any browser. Sign in Click the button to log in to the service.
- On this screen it will ask us if we have any Mozilla Firefox accounts. If you don’t have a Firefox account, you can sign up.
- Congratulations, you are now a member of Firefox Relay. After logging into the account, a screen message welcomes us; this message reminds you that the easiest browser for Firefox Relay is Firefox. still you You are free to use any browser you want..
- Just below this welcome message Generate New Alias We select the button.
- us here A Firefox extension email address is given. Now you can safely use this e-mail address on any site you want.
- You can turn forwarding on or off with the blue button next to the e-mail address; You can check your e-mail statistics with Blocked and Forwarded.
- From the same screen Generate New Alias by selecting the button; you can get multiple random email addresses. In this way, you can open more than one membership on a site. You can also forward messages from all these sites to your personal e-mail address.
- delete You can easily delete your Firefox extension e-mail addresses that you created with the option.
But have you heard of or used the Firefox Relay service before? What do you think about the Firefox Relay service?