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> In a sense, it sounds like the advice of the services is less subscribing to them than trying not to have a few e-mails that map to your personal identity.

Firefox Relay is a great way to do that :) https://relay.firefox.com

Integrating that with Monitor is pretty high on at least my personal wish list.

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The phone masking looks great, too. Like Privacy.com, it's awesome with virtual alternatives for PII, except they don't tend to be available here in Europe, but I'm definitely jealous.

If you need a privacy.com alternative for the EU, Revolut is a good option. They offer both one-time-use (disposable) cards, as well as normal virtual cards that are valid until revoked. They're not as advanced as privacy.com AFAIK, cards that only work for a single merchant but multiple transactions aren't offered for example, but they're good enough for most purposes.

Eu regulations on card networks make such a service much harder to offer, privacy.com makes money on card fees, which you can't really do here. Such a service would either have to be paid or bundled with other services which you can make money on, which is what Revolut does.

It’s an ok way to do it. And I’ve been subscribed (but not using it) for 2 years.

But until Firefox Relay supports custom domains, I am of the opinion that it’s not ideal.

With providers like Addy and SimpleLogin it is possible to use your own domain.

> https://addy.io/ > https://simplelogin.io/

+1 for Addy, been using it for ~2 years now with my personal domain and its been great.

I want with Addy over others because plans are per badwidth used instead of per alias, so one-time email verifications for some signup doesn't count towards a total limit.

Ive been using Simplelogin for a few years, and its totally fine.

Id just like it if Firefox Relay had these features.

addy is great - we've worked with them a bit on our alias backend

As someone who also runs their own custom email domains, I agree it would be nice if I could manage those through Relay. That said, I'd still be giving out Relay addresses way more often, since those email addresses can't be linked to each other, or to me.

My personal domain is for things that are really important in the long term, but for things like concert tickets, I prefer having the added anonymity.

Sure. But I just have multiple domains for things like that. And you could always have the option to use a Firefox Relay domain as well.

Thats how it is with Simplelogin (which is a similar service).

Oh yes, I am not at all saying I don't think Relay should have that option. It's more that I like sharing a domain with many others, so I can blend in with the crowd.

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