Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Firefox
206 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lorenz Nufer, 4 years agoIt just doesn't work! Says the email was forwarded, but doesn't appears in my inbox.(And neither in Spam) I tried several aliases and also several different email-service providers on my side.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHi Lorenz, I'm so sorry to hear that you are not receiving your emails. We’d love to try and help resolve it for you. Would you feel comfortable sharing the website that you were trying to use? If so, could I kindly ask for you to open an issue in Github and we’ll take a look. https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12909534, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Etymophony, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by TheToolGuy, 4 years agoUseless ...
The three most important functions of an alias are not working:
1. Creating an self named alias ...
2. Replying using an alias ...
3. Total email size only 150kb ... - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16949312, 4 years agoI cannot access my Deezer account without them tracking me, it seems. I tried to open it with my Relay account and the password I used was that of my personal Gmail account. It didn't work and I tried 3 or 4 times in a row. The FAQs don't say anything at all about the password I need to use (or create) to avoid the trackers. How does that work?
I didn't know until recently that Facebook (and who knows what other social media as well) tracks any activity I make online in sites where their icon is attached. I'm no technician or anything remotely close to that, but I do appreciate all the advantages of using Firefox and some of the ad-ons. I use Ublock and Dark Reader, apart from some of the ad-ons produced by Firefox developers such as Facebook Container.
However, I can't see the use of Firefox relay if I cannot access sites with it. Could you please help me understand this a bit more? I'm sure others could profit from the explanation too.
I know SNS and the such track us all the time and that Firefox protects us more than Chrome for sure, but most of us don't really understand how trackers work so as to avoid those sites, e.g.
In any case, thank you for reading this and for taking the time to respond!
Blessings from Argentina.Developer response
posted 4 years agoIf you create an account with a Relay alias, you can use whatever password you want - passwords are not used to track you.
If you use your real email address on a site, they can include it in a Facebook "Customer List" to track and target you via Facebook. By using an email alias, you break that link Facebook has to you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mistrbill, 4 years agoMaybe if I understood it better I would enjoy it but at this time I dont understand what I'm looking at or for!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12084844, 4 years agoHow sensless is that function in an email field to generate a relay adress instead of selecting one of the existings??
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alex, 4 years ago- Limited to a grand total of 5 aliases (Anonaddy, 33Mail, offer unlimited for FREE!)
- Can not reply (others offer that for FREE)
- You can not modify the aliases. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15614762, 4 years agoHow can I change email address to link Firefox Relay? Even after changing email in Account it still points to the old one. Can you please suggest?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16790451, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16771353, 4 years agolacking documentation to fully explain it.
far too confusing to understand how it works.
EDIT: DOES NOT EVEN WORK AT ALL.
SKIP THIS GARBAGE 'FEATURE'! - Rated 1 out of 5by rionegro, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Timbo8150, 4 years agoSUCKSl
Too many things to mention.
I don't have the time for it right now. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13491753, 4 years agoI like the concept - but the icon in the email field breaks my password manager's operation, specifically, its ability to paste user names and passwords into the correct fields. This is because what used to be a paste operation now needs an additional TAB. Considering removing Relay - unless I hear this can be fixed.
Thank you for the response about removing the icon - however, this setting cannot be changed. Clicking the on/off switch just makes it glow, nothing happens. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14854460, 4 years agoTry using it on Bed Bath and Beyond and it does not work.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi. Were you able to right-click in the email field and choose "Generate New Alias"? - Rated 1 out of 5by Lepeltier, 4 years agoJe ne parle que le Français et donc il faut attendre la version avec Français
- Rated 1 out of 5by juan riccio, 4 years agoA service like this is necessary, so the idea is good although certainly not new: there are already dozens of temp email sites, and this is no better. The domain name gives it away immediately, so it's a matter of days for the spammers to add relay.firefox.com to the list of "invalid" email address they won't accept for signing up.
What we really need is temp addresses with a legit domain! For example, @mozillamail.com would be fine, as long as it provides real addresses too - just like, say, gmail. What matters is that the same domain hosts both temp and legit addresses, so the spammers can't tell temporary from legitimate. Yes, it's probably harder on the server. But short of that, such a service is nearly useless, as is the extension.
If/when done like this, users will want an easy way to reply to the spammer from the legit address via the temp address, without leaking the legit one. Now _that_ would be something that doesn't exist yet - at least not in an easy to use form. By "easy to use", I mean POP3/IMAP support and a transparent mechanism for the user.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi, thanks for the feedback. Agree on all points. To combine relay aliases with "legit" email addresses in the same domain, we also need to mitigate abuses of aliases, so that the "legit" email addresses don't suffer from domain reputational harm caused by abusers of aliases. We are still considering the best way to mitigate alias abuse. - Rated 1 out of 5by Ry, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by MX, 5 years agoNo tiene una función para enviar información sobre errores del programa, ya que como es una fase beta seria lo recomendable para que llegasen lo mas rápido posible, ya que no tiene esa función diré por aquí, que tiene un error, que al recibir los correos en la bandeja de entrada, no se muestran los caracteres especiales.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoSorry for the reply in English. I'm not sure what kind of reporting function for program errors you are looking for. Are you asking for a way within Relay to provide feedback? Also curious about what errors you are encountering. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16248181, 5 years agoI can not understand why I need to install addon to use Firefox Relay. It can be server-side solution, no need to install addons essentially. No explanation/justification was displayed when I registered myself to Firefox Relay. I felt like I am forced to install unnecessary addons. I trust Mozilla and I believe this addon does not collectt our user data. That is why I installed this addon. I will not if other service provider requests me to same thing.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoIn order to discover the fields within a page in which the user can enter an email address so that we could autofill them, we needed to extend the functionality of the Firefox browser. Since Relay is new and in Beta and we wanted a mechanism to deliver updates and fixes quickly, the best route for us to deliver the browser side portion of Relay was through an add-on. In the future, we may include that Relay functionality in the Firefox browser so a separate add-on is not necessary. Relay can be used without the add-on (for example with a non-Firefox browser) by visiting the relay.firefox.com site and copy and pasting email aliases into the email address fields. - Rated 1 out of 5by Austin, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tanmay_bhat, 5 years agoAs of today unable to sign up on kickresume. it says "looks like disposable address"
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the feedback. I've added kickresume to an issue where we are recording sites that are blocking relay addresses. (https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/559) - Rated 1 out of 5by SATAN, 5 years agoI am very interested in this application, and I have received an invitation email, but when I opened the extension, I found that I can’t access the relay.firefox.com website from China. Can developers support it in the future?
- Rated 1 out of 5by A. O., 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by River, 5 years agoCan't even open relay.firefox.com to sign in...
I've already in the wait-list, even I've got invitation from Mozilla...
But I just can't open relay.firefox.com in China.Developer response
posted 5 years agoYou won't be able to sign in until you receive an invitation. Were you able to join the wait-list?