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Disguise your email address with an alias

In our Workshop in Issue 621 (page 38), we explained how to use Firefox Relay (https://relay.firefox.com) to protect your email address from spammers. This works by creating an alias that forwards messages to your inbox and we recommended installing the Firefox extension () to generate email aliases from any website. In other browsers, you needed to access the Firefox Relay Dashboard, but not any more because Mozilla has released a Firefox Relay add-on for Chrome and other Chromium browsers.

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