Qwacky - An open-source client to generate & manage DuckDuckGo email aliases!

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my what address? lol

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lmaooo thatā€™s what happens when youā€™re juggling too many things at once on a broken sleep schedule :sweat_smile:

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Just installed Quacky on FF.

  1. Is it normal that I canā€™t see all the aliases I generated before I installed the app?
  2. Do you plan on having an Android app?
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Congrats on the 2.0 release! Do you reckon thereā€™s any chance for a Safari port?

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Iā€™m using Qwacky for the first time, and I have noticed an issue. I use 2 FF profiles and installed it in both. However, the alias I created in one profile is not visible in the other profile, even though I enabled syncing on both. Moreover, I canā€™t see any of the Duck aliases I created before installing the browser extension. I can see the number of aliases I created before, but I canā€™t actually see these aliases.

Was it possible to send emails with Duck aliases before Qwacky?

Because if not, I love that you added this feature.

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@PurpleDime I donā€™t believe the DDG API allows you to retrieve existing aliases. Qwacky just saves any alieas that are created through itā€™s interface in itā€™s own local db store.

@Omar Do you think it would be possible to manually add previously created aliases to Qwacky?

PS. @Omar Thanks for adding the pop-out window functionality for me!
Loving the new version :duck::duck::duck::duck::duck: ā† 5 out of 5 ducks!

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I see. And do you know if Qwacky comes up with its own aliases or if it uses Duckā€™s generator? I ask this because I noticed that the aliases I created with Duck are random characters (skdj45as@duck.com), whereas Quackyā€™s aliases are actual words (dreamy-lamb-busy@duck.com).

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The aliases are issued by DDG from the API call.

My ā€œ@duck.comā€ aliases have always been 3-words no matter whether I create them through the DDG browser, official DDG extension or through Qwacky. Maybe something to do with the age of your primary duck alias :woman_shrugging:

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Until today via Qwacky, I hadnā€™t created an alias with Duck in quite some time. Probably a year or two. So itā€™s quite possible that they updated their generator.

I personally think all alias providers should have words as aliases regardless of if youā€™re paid user or free user. But I guess having random characters allows them to widen the gap between free and paid tiers.

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What is peopleā€™s experience sending from the aliases? How is the deliverability. I sent one to someone and they said it went to spam. Prior to this update I have been using https://sendfromduck.vercel.app/, but I will probably start just using the extension.

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Loving the new update! Thanks for your continuous improvements and maintenance.

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As Lunar-Pilot said, I canā€™t modify the core/built-in features, this extension is just a wrapper around the official app. If a feature like that gets added officially down the line, Iā€™ll definitely include it!

Yes

Are you signed in Firefox account?

Yes

No

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Thank you!

I can look into that.

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Awesome!

Yes. Both my FF profiles have their own FF account.

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I can work on that in the next releases

Iā€™m glad you liked it! Also how did you find the tags?

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Tags! OMG! Brilliant! It took me minute to work it out, but I also love the ability to group tags.

I have some suggestions if you could consider for improvement, though.

  1. Toggling the tag Group button to ā€œonā€ should automatically collapses all groups
  2. ability to create tags independently - in other words, create a tag even if there are no associated entries with the tag
  3. ability to rename tags
  4. ability to change a tagā€™s color
  5. tag names to be case sensitive (they change to lowercase even if I enter them in uppercase)
  6. tag list to wrap rather than scroll horizontally out of view

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I just tried sending emails to reverse aliases after I created them in Qwacky, and it is not working. I sent them to an address I own, and I have not received them.

Please advise.

Also, does Duck or Quacky allow you to set a display name for the emails you send?

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Works just fine for me. No name can be set. The email appears as the name.

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Thatā€™s weird. I assume that Duck reverse aliases work the same way as any.
In other worse you send an email from your inbox address to the reverse alias.

Thatā€™s what I did and I got nothing.

Ok. I just tried sending an email to a different email address and it worked.
Guess the issue was with the first email provider I sent it to the first time. Will have to tell them about this.