Reviews for Firefox Relay
Firefox Relay by Firefox
Review by Firefox user 16949312
Rated 1 out of 5
by 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.
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.
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.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18105316, a month agoOut of date. Should allow 50 aliases, but still using the old limit of 5.
Developer response
posted 25 days agoWe’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble! We’d be glad to look into this. Please reach out to us at https://mzl.la/3OKgOxD so we can follow up. Hope to hear from you soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by Suspect, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kurt, a month agoMasking an email is great for privacy! I am using this extension to change my real email! I can use this for every company!
Developer response
posted a month agoThank you so much for your positive feedback! We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying our app. If you have any suggestions for future updates, we’d love to hear them. Thanks again for your support! - Rated 4 out of 5by Anamul, a month ago
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- Rated 2 out of 5by ifarago, 2 months agoSo many people have been reporting for a long while that the extension doesn't allow use of all 50 granted aliases but only 5. However, a robot auto-replies "Sorry, we'll look into it". Come on, fox-bot, the fix it shouldn't be that complicated. You can do better than that. I believe in you.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble! We’d be glad to look into this. Please reach out to us at https://mzl.la/3OKgOxD so we can follow up. Hope to hear from you soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20073070, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by anon, 2 months agoJust signed up, probably works great but even before I've had a chance to use it, I'm already disappointed by the misleading advertising. From the welcome email: "As a Firefox user, you get 50 email masks for free." But from the management page: "4/5 masks available."
Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble! We’d be glad to look into this. Please reach out to us at https://mzl.la/3OKgOxD so we can follow up. Hope to hear from you soon! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13006980, 2 months ago• 20260728 Works now, the service must have been down. Now I discover that one gets only 5 out of the 50 advertised masks. Only one tenth of the promised ones. I don't need 50 but definitely more than 5; I signed up to a lie.
DuckDuckGo lets you have as many as you need, given enough time. You can also reply through them at no cost.
By default Mozilla opts you in sending telemetry data to them and opts you out from filtering e-mail trackers which are the exact opposite settings of what one would do for privacy.
• 20260727 I wanted to try Mozilla Relay out, signed up, and all I get now is blank pages. The extension only links to the same blank pages. Useless. Clearing cache, other browser, restarting, all didn't help either.Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble! We’d be glad to look into this. Please reach out to us at https://mzl.la/3OKgOxD so we can follow up. Hope to hear from you soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by zamioein, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by dotjgp3141, 2 months agoI would like to use this extension, but i get a 403 error for "relay dot firefox dot com" and the extension seems to be broken.
the website still claims 50 free mask, but in reality it is 5.Developer response
posted 2 months agoWe’re sorry to hear you’re having trouble! We’d be glad to look into this. Please reach out to us at https://mzl.la/3OKgOxD so we can follow up. Hope to hear from you soon! - Rated 5 out of 5by enes, 3 months ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by zakius, 3 months agoI appreciate the service a lot, but the extension itself is a bit annoying, it gets in a way of tab-navigation within login forms
Developer response
posted 3 months agoThanks for your feedback. We recognize that our product may not meet every use case or need, but your feedback is valuable in helping us identify opportunities for improvement. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us.