Hello, smart people. Filling out an online form to volunteer for something, Firefox’s Facebook-fence icon appeared on the email field. Confused, I clicked on its question mark. On the next page, Mozilla wanted to sell me Firefox relay for $7/mo. (That’s their VPN + email masking + phone masking.) I used my yandex.ru email address instead for $0. Here’s the question: is Facebook really able to track me because I’ve signed up to volunteer for Cornel West (setting aside the FB-Russia blockage issue)? Thanks.

  • FredericChopin_@feddit.uk
    151·
    1 year ago

    Passive aggressive response aside.

    Your wording is rather poor and doesn’t read like you signed up for yandex instead and reads like using this email address reduced the Mozilla charge from 7 -> 0.

    Perhaps, you shouldn’t make assumptions and you could have asked for clarification on what I was referring too.

    Have a wonderful day!!

    • riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      112·
      1 year ago

      Perhaps, you shouldn’t make assumptions

      I didn’t sign up for Yandex instead. I’ve had a Yandex account for a long time. Also, your comments aren’t clear, but I don’t care. 'Bye.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Firefox relay is about hiding your existing email from advertising and spam. It’s not an email provider like Yandex, Google, or Microsoft

        • riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I knew that, but thanks. FF’s advertisement hit me out of left field and offered things I already have. I’ve got Proton’s new PW manager, which offers email aliases, but I’m used to doing it the old way.