Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Firefox
2,220 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16949312, 5 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 5 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 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14352870, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14070887, 5 years agoI tried to use it in Gumtree but could not verify my email account with this alias. A great idea though.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16980669, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by DWPenner, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16531767, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16977573, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kukido, 5 years agoGreat tool, love it! One little thing: it shows the icon in the search bar of the Gmail inbox which I don't think makes a lot of sense.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16976820, 5 years agoSeems a good idea but it has integrated into site search boxes and removed filters. As an example my webmail client has a search box with filters for sender, recipient, subject etc. I now have no access to filters. Will now have to disable add-on each time it becomes intrusive.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14099456, 5 years agoThank you firefox for helping me secure my online accounts.
- Rated 5 out of 5by VladymyrL, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14939455, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16215408, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14221344, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16382498, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aitverdan, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ian Draude, 5 years agoMarcus by Goldman Sachs doesn't accept the e-mail address containing the relay sub-domain.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15256048, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sudhakar Krishnan, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mistrbill, 5 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 5 out of 5by maou2765, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by ITCruz, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Davide, 5 years agoThere is a bug with the visualisation of the email input field in bootstrap 5 making it behave bad: the input takes the entire line (moving icons in other lines) and it shows on top of modals (covering the pop-up).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Truth Seeker, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nudin47, 5 years agoGreat to have this from a trustworthy provider. Please:
- Allow to pay for more aliases
- Allow to easy reuse aliases once all available aliases are used.