OPopen-paren·May 3, 2020Submission
3 points · Open discussionmozilla
fx-private-relay
Python2020–2025
mozilla / fx-private-relay
fx-private-relay
Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. Make an email alias with 1 click, and keep your address to yourself.
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16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.8KGitHub stars
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Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. Make an email alias with 1 click, and keep your address to yourself.
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Observed mentions: 2020-04-30 01:04:44 UTC to 2025-12-17 11:18:28 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIt looks like this is currently in a private alpha, but the code is all open source. [1]
When Apple introduced something similar, I really wished that someone else would provide something similar. I'm glad to see Mozilla is gearing up to offer this. My main worry, though, is longevity. What happens when you sign up using a generated email address, and then Mozilla decides to shutter the service? You'd likely lose access to that email, and wouldn't be able to log into your accounts anymore. Thankfully Mozilla respects users enough that they'd probably offer ample notice so that you could change your email address.
[1] https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay
In Firefox Private Relay: Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses