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(Relay engineer here.)
While we provide a Firefox extension that makes generating an alias a click away, you're not dependent on Firefox specifically: you can generate and access your generated alias through the web interface at https://relay.firefox.com in any browser.
We're actively reaching out to maintainers of such lists (see e.g. [1]) to get us removed, and take a number of measures to make that more palatable (see also [1]). And of course Relay is a bit different from services like Mailinator, where email addresses are usually actually single-use: Relay addresses remain active until their owner actively disables them. Possibly in the future it might also be possible to bring your own domain, but I don't think we have any concrete plans for that that we can share.
That said, no solution is perfect, and I expect that there will likely always be situations where you will be forced to fall back to a regular email address.
[1] https://github.com/wesbos/burner-email-providers/pull/339