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177 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 10:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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deanc ◴[02 Sep 25 12:32 UTC] No.45102261[source]▶
I have found the majority of these relay services utterly useless. A large number of sites are using some kind of email verification service/API that detect all these relay/trash domains (mailinator etc.) and you can never sign up unless you have a legit domain. I'd be astonished if mozmail.com wasn't already on this list.

I'm not saying I don't value the idea behind this, but at least with Apple they are using their primary domain as a relay meaning it's too risky to block all the legitimate addresses.

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1. Vinnl ◴[02 Sep 25 12:37 UTC] No.45102316[source]▶
It's a risk, and it would be great if they worked on more sites, but "utterly useless" is too brash in my opinion - there are still a lot of sites that do accept them, and each one is one account fewer that can be linked to your others. I don't think I've had problems receiving concert or cinema tickets, for example - the one-time uses for which they are most beneficial. I just checked, and I currently have 385 email masks used. Certainly worth the €1 a month.

(Disclosure: I used to be on the Firefox Relay team.)