Mozilla company is working to expand the service firefox relay , which allows you to generate temporary postal addresses for registration on sites or designing subscriptions so as not To advertise your real address. Currently is the review of a change that realizes similar functionality for telephone numbers. Firefox Relay will generate temporary telephone numbers to hide the real number of the user when passing registration or receiving SMS-improvisations.
Calls and SMS entering the created virtual number will automatically redirect to the real number of the user, hiding it from outsiders. If necessary, the user can deactivate the virtual number and not receive more calls and SMS through it. As in the case of postal addresses, the service can also be used to identify the source of information leakage. For example, for different registrations, individual virtual numbers can be tied, which in the event of an SMS-mailing room or advertising calls, it will make it possible to understand who is the source of the leak.
In addition, you can note intention Integrate the support of Firefox Relay into the main composition of Firefox. If earlier, a special addition was required to generate and substitute addresses, now the browser when the user is connected to the account in firefox account will automatically offer replacements in the input fields with email. The inclusion of Firefox Relay in Firefox is scheduled for September 27.
Adding to Firefox Relay the possibility of replacing the phone numbers will be $ 1.99 per month or $ 12 per year (until September 27, a promotional period with a price of $ 0.99 per month acted). Firefox Relay code open under the license mpl-2.0 and can be used to create a similar service on its equipment.
