Firefox Relay
relay.firefox.com
⁨Firefox Relay⁩ makes it easy to create email masks that forward your messages to your true inbox. Use them to protect your online accounts from hackers and unwanted messages.

I’m seeing lots of people subscribing with their real email address to different newsletters or random websites that they might use once in a while.

For a couple of years I have run a proxy SMTP that I kept to forward emails to my real address, as a privacy measure.

People tend to use the “+” sign in order to identify if they address was sold, for example signing up with “michael.john+amazon@gmail.com”, now what most do not realize is the fact that when selling data to third parties, most companies parse their email lists and clear our those “+” sign. (Source: I have worked with companies that do that)

I found the relay from Mozilla to be massively useful in this case, so if anyone is interested, have a try with it:

https://relay.firefox.com/

    • unglueclass23@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      I used duckduckgo at first now pay for mozilla relay.

      Can’t remember exactly why I switched. I think I didn’t like it that I couldn’t see the emails I had generated. Also you needed the extension for something and I found it annoying. In general I feel like I have more control in Mozilla relay than I had in DDG.

      As for the price it’s 1 eur / month. I treat it as a donation to mozilla and don’t sweat it, considering I use firefox on phone / desktop they deserve it.