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Re: Apple Sign In

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My first thought was: Bye bye mailinator.com

As if everybody uses Apple.

what is the need to have such a knee jerk reply? Seriously, why would you say something like that?

My comment meant: "Bye bye " for me. As in: I'm not using it anymore.

I don't get you man.

Re: Apple Sign In

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Thanks for the feedback, I’ll try to tone that thing down a bit. The thing is, some people LOVE the chat widget. Especially for those users who don’t want reveal their real email address but have a quick question. I’ve had at least 3x more chats on there than support emails.

Chat is awesome. Personally I love it. You get to talk to someone in real time. What's not to like about it. I'm not sure why the OP is so revolted by it. Maybe remove the sound but leave the popup and chat.

> You get to talk to someone in real time.

Except it’s not real time until a support person is notified and responds minutes or sometimes hours later. Chat pop ups feel like a lame trick these days every time I try to use them; they pretend like they’re going to be fast and then make you waste your own time waiting. The last one I used the other day made me wait more than 10 minutes, so I did something else, and when the support person responded and asked a follow up question and I didn’t answer in 5 seconds, they closed the support ticket, making me start over. I’d rather use email.

Re: Apple Sign In

#303
Seems like a direct copy of MaskMail.net

Nice to have the product validated, but never fun when a giant just duplicates your business

Re: Apple Sign In

#304

When Apple users use this to commit fraud/trolling/stalking/etc. and get tracked down it's going to make Apple look bad.

Not really. It's still linked transparently behind the scenes to your Apple ID. The connection won't be visible to the developers but the fraud etc will already be taken care of when signing up for your Apple ID.

The reality is that it won't do much to protect users privacy or prevent tracking, although it will make it easier for users to avoid spam filling up their inboxes.

Re: Apple Sign In

#305

Whoa. Apple is picking up where Mozilla’s ball dropped, but with a massively better chance of success. Cheers to whoever is running this show.

Tim Cook and the Board of Directors, no? Of course there will be other who initiated and are spearheading the effort to include in the cheers.

Re: Apple Sign In

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Who do you trust more _not_ to do sketchy stuff with your data, Apple or Google? For me it's unequivocally Apple.

For me, Apple. Google isn't outwardly evil. Apple being anti consumer and anti developer really show you who Apple works for.

I think you meant 'For me, Google'.

Re: Apple Sign In

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I've been trying for some time to explain to my friends and family how a unique email/password + 2FA strategy is the best thing to do and how it would allow them to cut one in case it gets leaked. I guess I will just tell everybody about "Sign in with Apple" now, it will be easier.

Will you also tell that to your Android or Windows using friends?

You can tell them it's a valuable category of service that they should want an analog of.

Re: Apple Sign In

#308
According to the App Store review guidelines update posted today, Sign In with Apple will be required for any iOS app that implements a single-sign in button.

"Sign In with Apple will be available for beta testing this summer. It will be required as an option for users in apps that support third-party sign-in when it is commercially available later this year."

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06032019j

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