Mozilla describes the Private Relay Firefox add-on as being able to generate 'unique, random, anonymous email addresses that forward to your real address,' and when done with you can 'disable or destroy the email address.' MORE FROM FORBES Downloaded Twitter Data Using Firefox? Could Hackers Have Stolen Your Data? By Davey Winder All emails sent to that new address will automatically be forwarded to your actual address. But that's not as easy to manage as the Firefox solution.īy simply clicking on a 'relay' button next to the email fields, once installed, the add-on will allow an alias to be created on-demand.

Gmail users, for example, might sign up with instead of as a 'dot' before the symbol doesn't change where the email ends up, but does help to identify where spam is coming from. That idea is email aliases, where you create different email addresses for services and sites that you sign up to while keeping your 'real' email to yourself. Still, Mozilla is making it so easy to use that it could revolutionize the way we deal with unwanted, annoying and potentially dangerous emails. The idea behind the new add-in is undoubtedly not new. Going by the name of Private Relay, Mozilla is currently testing a new add-on for Firefox users that could put an end to unwanted emails using a single click. Mozilla's one-click killer email trick to deal with spam A new one-click email trick that is currently being tested by Mozilla could provide the solution for 250 million Firefox users. That still leaves way too many actual spam messages getting through when you do the math, and it's dealing with these that is proving difficult. Thankfully, email applications now come with anti-spam measures built-in, and the likes of Gmail, for example, reckon the machine learning algorithms that power the spam filtering for 1.5 billion Google email users are 99.9% accurate. They did, however, require a period of training whereby the recipient would have to categorize email as being spam or not manually.

Dedicated spam filtering solutions using a combination of sender reputation scoring and keywords soon emerged and proved more effective.

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