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Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by SXX »

joeyhage wrote: post #33
giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

Completely agree - have you encountered this before? The Gmail plus sign alias trick has been widely known for a long time and, to my knowledge, still works well today. It would be easy enough for websites to either block + in gmail addresses or instead grab the true email.

Gmail also have "googlemail.com" alias and you can split your username with dots since they dont count like "user@gmail.com" and "u.s.e.r@gmail.com" are the same thing,

Nothing of it solves privacy though.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by ABS »

muse900 wrote: post #24
giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

Yes but not always applicable unfortunately… e.g. the other day I was in Italy, I needed to park on the publicly available parking which was paid to the municipality. No other parking available anywhere near in 30 mins walking distance. (paid or free) I had to download a 3rd party app that asked me to register. This app isn’t by the Italian government, it’s affiliated though. So in that situation, I want nothing to d…

you can pay at the parking meters directly, no need for a 3rd party app

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by nielsbot »

SXX wrote: post #58
utilize1808 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe to avoid getting their legitimate email servers banned by other servers since they host (i.e. being exploited) a growing number of spam accounts.

You cant send mail from Hide My Email aliases. They are only work one way.

You can send from Hide My Email addresses:

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/use-hide-my-email-in-...

I think I've also seen this in Mail.app but that's not shown on this page.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by darknoon »

wxw wrote: post #13

I pay for Fastmail just for masked email and its integration with 1Password.

I frequently run into scenarios where it won't let me generate the email within 1password on a website, and I have to go to Fastmail and then manually do it. Is this something you have bene able to work around?

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by LordDragonfang »

c7b wrote: post #64
jawiggins wrote: post #8

> If you use iCloud+ and Hide My Email, there is still time to generate more aliases on @icloud.com as the change has not yet landed and the rate limit for creating aliases is at least 30 per hour. Part of the reason to use Hide My Email was that it made keeping myself private hassle-free. Making a system to pre-generate values and then catalog them for later use is quite the hassle.

If you don't mind trusting another company with forwarding your emails, it's definitely less hassle to set up an equivalent service for yourself.

If you mean "set up an equivalent service" under your own domain, that's both less private and more likely to be blocked; there are a lot of services which, unfortunately, only allow sign-ups from big, well-known domains.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by toast0 »

reaperducer wrote: post #44
Bender wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ran into this with an NVMO mobile provider. They did not like my personal email domains (assorted .net and .org) so I nagged their customer support until they manually added it. Their marketing team happily emails my personal domains once added. Some day this will probably cause a problem but my goal is to eventually get rid of my cell phone either way.

I ran into this with an NVMO mobile provider. As of about six months ago, AT&T's web site would not accept email addresses without a three-character TLD. I had to get a customer service person on the phone to manually change my address.

Even .us ??? Pretty sure I used my usual domain (enslaves.us) with them for wireless and california landline and u-verse.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by SXX »

nielsbot wrote: post #75
SXX wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You cant send mail from Hide My Email aliases. They are only work one way.

You can send from Hide My Email addresses: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/use-hide-my-email-in-... I think I've also seen this in Mail.app but that's not shown on this page.

Wow my bad I wasnt aware its possible. I remember someone in HN comments complaining about it being one way only back in 2024.

UPD: apperently this supposedly only work if someone message you first. So you still cant spam from aliases.

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