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iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by weiran »

TheDong wrote: post #92
ezfe wrote: post #87

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ublock origin is supported by Safari

ublock origin _lite_ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... I also can't use Safari because I want my tabs and bookmarks to sync between my desktop machine (linux) and my phone (iOS), and Safari is the only major browser which can't do that. Not to mention Safari is just an inferior browser which seems possibly designed to hold back Progressive Web Apps so that everyone has to make app-store…

PWAs hold themselves back, they don’t need any help from Safari.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by dannyw »

wafflemaker wrote: post #79
NotThatFast wrote: post #19

One of the best things about it. Also being able to add several emails per custom domain for free. Whole thing is 99c a month. Makes Gmail seem like a joke in comparison. Until you get an email from an iCloud address on Gmail and see it go right to spam haha. Suddenly Gmail is cheap again

Best thing to do with Gmail spam is to make an auto filter to mark all spam as not spam. Took me only one missed dentist appointment several years ago to get that idea. Now I'm just getting profits. No other spam since I'm using email aliases.

Unfortunately you can only do that for yourself, your recipients almost certainly aren't doing the same. It doesn't address the "gmail deliverability" issue.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by dannyw »

floam wrote: post #56
nvme0n1p1 wrote: post #46

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This doesn't follow. The bounce message used to (effectively) say, > abc@icloud.com forwards to real@gmail.com If they switched the new domain and did nothing else, it would say: > abc@privaterelay.appleid.com forwards to real@gmail.com That's no better. Fixing that privacy leak is unrelated to whatever the destination domain is.

No, using a different domain makes it easy to across the board add a rule: don’t treat as Apple ID.

I'm not sure if I'm following. Apple is capable of creating a lookup table, or an atomic database read query.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by serbuvlad »

cube00 wrote: post #99
glenngillen wrote: post #65

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Totally agree with unique at own domain isn't actually privacy. It wouldn't take much of a paper trail to work out the details. I continue to use it everywhere for a few reasons: - if someone emails me acting all friendly like we've had some previous relationship but it's sent to linked@mydomain or github@mydomain I know they've just scraped my contact details and it's spam - similarly, if a vendor leaks or sells my…

> - similarly, if a vendor leaks or sells my data and I start receiving marketing from somewhere I don't expect it's easier to trace the source of the leak (and in some cases just blackhole that entire email address) This is exactly why I do it, it's eye opening to see exactly which companies leaked your address. As a result of being able to blackhole the leaked addresses I no longer get any spam, the Dvorak dream. I…

I find this very interesting in 2026.

I use my gmail address for everything and I don't really get spam (except from services I've subscribed to legitimately but haven't bothered to configure to not send promotional mail).

I never really get promotional mail from 3rd parties at all.

Is this just gmail filters being very good?

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by TiredOfLife »

consumer451 wrote: post #44
HeavenFox wrote: post #40

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Case in point: many websites block all VPN except iCloud Private Relay. Thank you Apple!

Seriously, Apple is "big tech," but they are the only one that appears to give a crap about privacy at all. And really, they put a lot of money and effort into it. We need to give kudos when they are due. Apple's Private Cloud Compute should have won some kind of Nobel Privacy Prize, which for some reason does not yet exist.

> but they are the only one that appears to give a crap about privacy at all.

they advertise that they do. that is not the same as doing

Apple literally wanted to scan all your photos and automatically report you to law enforcement if a fuzzy hash happened to match an opaque database.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by flyingshelf »

aareet wrote: post #91
dilyevsky wrote: post #35

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how is the user being held hostage? you can redirect hide my email addresses to any domain

I think the other answers are misinterpreting your question. A user is held "hostage" because unlike fastmail where the format is word.salad@yourdomain; if you ever wanted to ditch iCloud completely, you'd have to go through every single account you used it for and update the email. As someone who has shed his gmail account I can tell you it's not easy to update email address on every site you've ever used it on. The…

I mean, that is no different than any other provider.

If you want to degoogle, you still have to go to each site and change your staticuser@gmail.com individually.

Most users already do not use custom domains if that's the catch.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by nexus6 »

TheDong wrote: post #73
consumer451 wrote: post #44

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Seriously, Apple is "big tech," but they are the only one that appears to give a crap about privacy at all. And really, they put a lot of money and effort into it. We need to give kudos when they are due. Apple's Private Cloud Compute should have won some kind of Nobel Privacy Prize, which for some reason does not yet exist.

They still don't let me install uBlock origin + noscript. Whitelisting per-domain and per-site what can run Javascript does more for my privacy than anything else, and I can do that with firefox on linux and android, but on iOS I'm not allowed to install firefox. There's obviously no real technical limitation since if you live in the EU you can sideload an alternative browser in theory (though apple has made it unrea…

Well there’s UBlock for Safari, yeah it’s not UBlock Origin but it’s not that nothing is available. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

Also Brave supports per site JavaScript blocking on iOS.

So there’s more privacy tools available than you think/assume.

Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by pfa87 »

serbuvlad wrote: post #104
cube00 wrote: post #99

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> - similarly, if a vendor leaks or sells my data and I start receiving marketing from somewhere I don't expect it's easier to trace the source of the leak (and in some cases just blackhole that entire email address) This is exactly why I do it, it's eye opening to see exactly which companies leaked your address. As a result of being able to blackhole the leaked addresses I no longer get any spam, the Dvorak dream. I…

I find this very interesting in 2026. I use my gmail address for everything and I don't really get spam (except from services I've subscribed to legitimately but haven't bothered to configure to not send promotional mail). I never really get promotional mail from 3rd parties at all. Is this just gmail filters being very good?

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Re: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Post by _zoltan_ »

DarmokTanagra wrote: post #67

I use hide my email and single use credit card numbers all the time, its a fantastic system combined with some basic email forwarding rules. Yes, vendor lock in sucks, but I have $20k worth of apple hardware already so that ship has sailed and overall Im pretty happy with it.

single use card tied to you, or via some privacy frontend? if the latter, care to share your experience?
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