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I like what Mozilla has been doing with their services, but they have built a very confusing business model of many micro services that I just don't see a ton of people signing up for as independent subscriptions.

Why not bundle them all as one membership? Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Relay, Monitor, and whatever services they can scrape up premium options and features for to give them value?

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(Mozilla Privacy & Security ENGR) Stay tuned ... :)

Since you're here looking, please could the relay custom domain feature support custom domains? At the moment it actually generates subdomains.

i would like this too. i think you can do it with apple email relay.

currently i have example.com as my email, which i use with mailbox.org, would it be possible to keep using it with mailbox.org and then for mozilla to allow it to be used for email relays? e.g.

name@example.com goes to mailbox.org

3859dhtog@example.com goes to firefox relay

(not currently ofc, but a future thing)

I assume this means you have an MX record at example.com pointing to your/mailbox.org SMTP server? AIUI, a sending MTA will look up the MX record for example.com by preference order and will deliver emails to the first server that accepts the connection.

So it may depend if you can configure your mailbox.org account/server to reject connections from servers trying to send mail to unknown addresses? Then the sending MTA server might "fail over" to the Relay server instead?

Yeah, "Bring your own domain" is a super cool feature idea. We could even re-use Acme HTTP-01 or DNS-01 challenges to verify the domain.

Great to hear! One suggestion; I think it would be great to have an integration with smartphones Contact apps. This way a user can leverage autocomplete and do not disturb rules on mobile.

Oh interesting. Do you mind filing an issue for what you have in mind here?

https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay/issues/new

FWIW, when you get a Relay number, we text you a contact card for it, so you can save it into your phone's contacts app.

> Why not bundle them all as one membership?

That would be cool; then I could unsubscribe from all of them with a single action.

Why is this branded "Firefox"? This is apparently a Mozilla project, unrelated to their web browser.

This makes a lot of sense. But maybe it's the direction that Mozilla is already headed in?

A password manager would fit in nice. Maybe acquire Bitwarden.

Bitwarden already can generate firefox relay addresses!

I can't tell if /s is missing or not but Mozilla had a standalone password manager eventually it changed its name to Lockwise, and once all my passwords were in it, they sunsetted it even quicker than a google product.

I actually had no idea they did that, that's how short-lived and poorly advertised it must have been :)

It's still a thing, they only got rid of the standalone app. Now it's just part of the actual Firefox app though you can apparently use it to autofill in other apps on android at least.

Integrated into Firefox now. Works similar to how the lockwise app did on iOS.

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