* Privacy: all those ad data aggregators have a harder time connecting me between accounts. (somewhat redundant with a password manager and unique passwords, but still) They also can't try to log in to other accounts or do password resets if they get a hold of the password. * Mitigate data leaks: if some database gets compromised, all they get is a throwaway email. No need to worry about secondary emails just for a few accounts. * Multiple accounts: If you need a second account with some service, you simply use a new alias. * Spam: if I get any spam, I know exactly which company is responsible, whether directly, through selling user data or because of breaches. This allows for one or more accounts to be created, and then destroyed without the need to specify the target account.I have a custom domain just for signups, and I sign up with The domain simply has a catchall email with a password manager (Bitwarden) this is absolutely brilliant. It can then be installed by simply running pip install fxacliĪny account created by the tool will be stored in a JSON file named. To use the tool, you’ll need Python (despite a dependency not claiming to have support for Python 3, it’s working fine for me using 3.6) and pip. As I had this need again recently, I decided to write a simple command line tool for creating verified accounts and subsequently destroying them. For the rare occasion that I’ve needed an account, I’ve either created them manually via main user interface with a disposable email account, or I’ve created a simple one-off script to create a batch of accounts.

As useful as this is, it hasn’t been particularly easy to create accounts for the purposes of manual testing.

Fortunately we’ve had this ability from the very early days of the service, and our automated tests make heavy use of PyFxA to create, verify, and ultimately destroying accounts. When testing services that depend on Firefox Accounts, it’s useful to be able to create disposable test accounts.

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