I've been following Firefox Relay features for a bit now. Is there a difference between the service offered by Firefox Relay premium to the free DuckDuckGo Email Protection?
Do you believe DDG will also eventually move to the subscription model for these features (unlimited aliases, reply to sender)?
I'm not super familiar with DDG's offering (and of course can't predict what they will do in the future), but some differences that I see on first glance:
- You need to use their app or browser extension to use it. (You can use Relay using just the website at https://relay.firefox.com.)
- Mozilla is a non-profit, whereas DDG is a for-profit company. (Though I should add that I'm a happy user of DDG search, and that I think they're pretty great.)
- There might still be a waitlist?
- Relay Premium has features like your own custom subdomain so you can come up with new addresses on the fly, the ability to reply to forwarded emails without revealing your address, unlimited addresses, of which I don't know whether DDG's service has them.
- On the other hand, Relay doesn't block trackers yet (but incidentally, that's the feature I'm working on right now).
- And of course, by subscribing to Relay Premium, you can support Mozilla and make it less reliant on Google :)
So yeah, not a particularly helpful comparison, since I'm not too familiar with their offering, sorry.
Do you believe DDG will also eventually move to the subscription model for these features (unlimited aliases, reply to sender)?