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.
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#212Is this Safari only or for all browsers?
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#213Disposable, anonymous email forwarding is a massive step forward for privacy. I know we've all been doing it for a while, but this on a consumer level is fantastic.
I was wondering why all the popular ‘private’ email services don't seem to have such a feature.
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#214Orr you could buy a domain, and use a catch all email rule and then use an unique rmail address per site. Like mybank@mydomain, yourepamsite@mydomain ect.. I've never had any security problems.
How would that help with tracking? The domain you buy will be a unique identifier that's owned only by you.
What tracking will this defeat that couldn't also be thwarted by putting dots and plus modifiers in a Gmail address?
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#215This is a huge move. Apple striking at the core of Facebook's play to own your identity, which they had with Facebook Connect but have completely fudged out with countless breaches of user privacy and trust. I used to be the biggest fanboy of facebook connect, but now I have to say: Go Apple.
Apple ID as SSO, iMessage Profile, Memoji, and Apple Pay. Apple is near FB Messenger parity, now that it functions as an account for external services. It's an extremely strong move on Apple's part, especially considering how close to it they have been for a while. They sure like taking their time sometimes.
True. Apple definitely playing the long game here, effectively. When iMessage came out I totally didn't see it ever becoming a viable identity play. But with all these privacy concerns, now it feels like the one to beat.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you need SSO? Password managers make it easy to manage accounts.
PMs don't make it easy, they make it reliable and central. The default password generation usually doesn't work, and a web form doesn't capture everything, but I'm never clicking and guessing even when I haven't used an account in years. But SSO wins on mobile, because the PM is clunky even with a custom keyboard. Even then, I keep a dummy entry in my PM just so I'm tracking it.
Mobile Dashlane and Lastpass work much better on Android, where the OS allows you to set default apps. If Apple deserves any antitrust spankings its for not allowing user control of protocol handlers and default programs.
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> I'd definitely pick Telegram over Apple Why?
Works everywhere with the devices and OS you have like (or can afford): Android, Linux desktop, Mac, iOS, Windows and more.
Telegrams end to end encryption is locked to the two devices which started it, so it’s totally useless when you want it across devices.
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#218This is a huge move. Apple striking at the core of Facebook's play to own your identity, which they had with Facebook Connect but have completely fudged out with countless breaches of user privacy and trust. I used to be the biggest fanboy of facebook connect, but now I have to say: Go Apple.
I've been anti-Apple since I was a high school kid in the 90's. Those big colourful Mac's looked dumb. They're close to winning me over and I'm probably buying a new laptop within 12 months
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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.
Their shareholders?
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I imagine you'd have to get the private email from your iPhone, similar to how 1Password works.
And it appears from the image that the private email would be a bear to type into another device.
Hopefully, more devices will move away from requiring you to type anything into the device to sign in.
Quite a few devices or apps on devices have already done so. Instead of having you enter the account ID and password directly, they give you a URL to visit that is something like .com/add-device" rel="nofollow">https://.com/add-device, and show you a random code.
You go to the given URL in your normal browser on whatever device you normally use for web browsing, where you can login to your account at and enter the code the device gave you.
A few seconds later the device notices you've completed this, and you are then automatically signed in on that device.