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

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Post by jjav »

Corrado wrote: post #163
serbuvlad wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, gmail filters are VERY good.

Hard disagree. Unless by "good" you mean that a third of your legitimate email is shoved in spam by gmail. That is not good, by any measure.

Even the simplest bayesian filter will score better than gmail.

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Post by TiredOfLife »

zackwu wrote: post #205
TiredOfLife wrote: post #105

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> 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.

no one is saying Apple is the saint. It's just better in comparison to other big techs who want your privacy as much and don't even pretend to care

I think that pretending to care is much much worse than not caring.

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Post by inigyou »

Schiendelman wrote: post #208
inigyou wrote: post #207

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Lying would make money. Apple likes money. Apple has a lot of money. Many other companies that were in positions similar to Apple have been caught lying. The reason for that was money.

Do you understand how easy it would be to prove Apple lied about that if they did?

Yes, very difficult, probably impossible

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Post by dundercoder »

srevenant wrote: post #200

Don't mix use cases. Privacy is different from uniquely identifying senders. The reason for random email addresses is YOU finally can identify each vendor uniquely by the email they send you stuff. It isn't about anonymizing, it's about identifying them. I've been doing it for 30+ years on my own domains.

This is exactly what I use it for.

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Post by glub »

SXX wrote: post #128

Oh I glad there is still someone at Apple who understood its insanity. If only they made it generate a bit more sensible alias names. UPD: I obviously mean alias addresses template make most of them too easy to recognize.

Yeah, I don't really get the excitement. The pattern in which these aliases are generated might as well just end with private.icloud.com.

Is breest-tas.7n@icloud.com really that hard to detect as hide my email?

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Post by glub »

delduca wrote: post #166

If you pay for iCloud + a domain, you can have ${anything}@${yourdomain}. Works like a charm. For example, I can have hn@mydomain.com for hn only mails, if they share my mail address, I'll know.

You also make yourself extremely identifiable. It takes only one leak to know that all emails on mydomain.com across the web are delduca.
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