Firefox Relay Protects Your Identity Using Email Aliases 

Firefox Relay hides your real email address to help protect your identity. The release comes just in time for the holiday season to help spare your inbox from being filled with spam emails.

Online, our email address is like our phone number; it’s a personal and unique identifier. And similar to our phone number, our email address identifies us. It has become the way we log in and access almost every website, app, and newsletter, which is also how we have hundreds of other online interactions. That means our email address is in the hands of hundreds, if not thousands, of third parties.

Over the last year, Firefox has been experimenting with Firefox Relay, a smart, easy solution that can preserve the privacy of people’s email addresses. It is a free service available at relay.firefox.com, where people will get five email aliases to use whenever they sign-up for an online account. The product’s beta phase was rolled out for early adopters who like to test new products. And the beta testers provided feedback on the product, which improved the free service and added a new paid Premium service that Firefox is introducing today.

How Firefox Relay works

Firefox Relay will send and forward incoming emails from your alias email addresses to your primary email address. Firefox does not read or keep any of the content in people’s messages, and all emails are deleted after they’re sent and delivered to the person.

With Firefox Relay, people will get five free email aliases and up to 150 kb of attachments. You can sign up for Firefox Relay through their site or download it as an add-on. Additionally, they have added the ability for labels to be synced across devices. The labels allow people to add information like an account name or a description, so it’ll be easier to know which sites have been signed up using the alias. With this new syncing, you’ll be able to see these labels on all your devices, including mobile.

To bring protection to more people, Firefox Relay will now be available in the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, English, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Welsh.

Here’s how Firefox Relay works:

Step 1: Go to relay.firefox.com

Step 2: Sign in with your Firefox Account or sign up for a Firefox Account (this takes roughly about two minutes).

Step 3: Once you’re signed in, you can generate up to five free random email aliases to use. If you need more than five email aliases, you can sign up for a premium paid service.

Step 4: When you sign up for a new online account, you can go to the Firefox Relay dashboard to generate an email alias. Or click the Firefox Relay button that may appear in the login box to use one of those email aliases. Then, Firefox Relay will forward emails from the alias to your real inbox, keeping your actual email address hidden.
Want more email address aliases?

Try Firefox Relay Premium

During the beta testing phase, Firefox heard feedback from many users who wanted more email address aliases. So, they decided to offer a Premium service where subscribers will receive one subdomain alias to create unlimited email aliases.

For example, [email protected] or [email protected]; a summary dashboard of your email aliases; the option to use your email aliases to reply to emails directly; and customer support through their contact form. Premium subscribers will also receive the 150 kb attachment that is currently available to free subscribers.

For a limited time, Firefox will be offering a low introductory price of $0.99 a month (available in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore, and New Zealand) and 0.99 EUR/1.00 CHF in Europe (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland).

Firefox Thanks Their Community and Beta Testers

We appreciate the thousands of beta testers who have participated in the early beta testing phase since we started this journey.

It’s their voice and impact that has motivated and inspired us to continue to develop this product. Thanks to your support, we’re happy to graduate the Firefox Relay product and provide a premium offering.