Firefox has been incorporating new features in response to user desires for more online privacy, like many of the finest web browsers. This includes Firefox Relay, a free program that enables you to utilize email aliases to conceal your identity when signing up for different marketing campaigns. The service, which had previously only been offered by Firefox, was made accessible as an extension in Google Chrome last year and included a few improvements like the option to filter some or all promotional emails. Now that Firefox on Android has more extensions for the first time since 2020, these features are being introduced to it.
Together with two new add-ons that let you listen to audio versions of web content and remove tracking components from URLs, Mozilla is making Firefox Relay available on Android as an extension. Firefox Relay creates an email alias to prevent spammers from accessing your mailbox. This is useful if you need to enter your email address into an online form; just click the Firefox Relay button to enter an anonymous email address in place of your real one. Messages are automatically forwarded to your real inbox via the add-on, and you may choose which ones to receive.
A premium tier of the service, which allows you to create more than five aliases for $0.99 per month, was offered by Firefox in 2021. A few upgrades were made to it last year, including the addition of support for email attachments up to 10MB in size (up from the meager 150KB).
To remove tracking components from URLs and shorten them, Mozilla has also included ClearURL to Firefox Android. In order to follow you, websites frequently extend the main URL by additional characters. According to Bleeping Computer, Firefox version 102 introduced this privacy function for the first time on desktop in June of last year by deactivating tracking codes from Facebook, Olytics, HubSpot, and Marketo.
With ReadAloud, Firefox for Android can finally read web pages aloud to you. This add-on converts web content from text to audio using text-to-speech technology and offers a few control options, including the choice of a male or female voice and the ability to change the reading speed.
Firefox already offers a variety of tools that can assist in defending you against tracking cookies, which are used by advertisers to gather data and monitor your online activities. The most recent add-ons take things a step further, and they might be the solution for those who are sick of seeing spammy advertisements or being tracked when they visit websites like Facebook.
