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COUGHredditCOUGH
I think Reddit falls under this category. > If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.
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Just a regular old username + password, kind of like HN allows?
I feel like email overtook usernames because it was more likely to be unique/memorable. I hate when websites ask me to remember a username (even though I'm using a password manager so I should really just calm down.)
If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.
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Its a real address that I can use to monitor your behavior, since businesses send so much damn spam.
Been using them for 25 years, not gonna stop any time soon.
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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.
Spammers know to just cut out the +whatever. It's a simple regex to keep those from even getting into a database.
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You can use Hide My Email independently from Sign in with Apple.
I know that, but in doing so you prevent yourself from ever using Sign in with Apple
But otherwise, you're right, any website that wants to accept Sign in with Apple will almost certainly be agreeing to Apple's TOS for Sign in with Apple I presume will stop you from blocking this service.
For me personally, Hide My Email is binding me to the Apple ecosystem more than iMessage (but I'm European).
If I need to make an account with someone I don't trust enough to hand my email over to, usually the right answer is to just not create an account with them.
I have also tried things like having email aliases but what ends up happening is now I have more email accounts aliases to maintain/think about. It's annoying.
I don't personally find the prospect of "receiving spam email" or "having my email account leaked in a hack" to be particularly threatening. Spam just goes to the spam box, it's usually not my problem.
And besides, my real email can get exposed by my own legitimate companies that really should have my real email getting hacked. See also: EquiFax.
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It’s unsettling, you’re either an iCloud customer for life or hundreds of logins could break.
Nothing breaks when you switch. You just can't create more private icloud addresses. I recently switched back to Android and can still use my old icloud logins.
> In what universe if you stop paying for a service you can still access the resources of that service? Basic common knowledge.
But on MacRumors:
“Update: So I let my iCloud+ account expire.
When this happens you lose access to managing ALL your Hide My Email emails. Yet you can't even see what the Hide My Email addresses are any longer.
But, people can still send emails to those emails. However, you apparently cannot reply to the emails with the Hide My Email address.
This is troubling...”
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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.
Some sites that block "+" in email addresses are actually just doing it out of incompetence. My credit union, for example, will actually accept an address with a "+" in it, but nothing will work because some broken bit of web 1.0 plumbing along the way converted it to a space (it shows up that way on my profile page). I wouldn't be surprised to see " " on my printed bank statements.
And of course after registering with foo+bar@example.com they will happily send invoices to bar@example.com
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I guess their thought process is, both alias and non-alias accounts use @icloud.com You were always able to reserve a normal icloud email address just like you would a GMail account, so banning all icloud email addresses would be banning non-alias Apple customers That being said, I'm not convinced anyone who wanted to ban aliases couldn't have already. The alias emails look weird enough I'm guessing you could ban the…
> The alias emails look weird enough I'm guessing you could ban them with few false positives. While this is true not all of them been weird. Some can be just word + number + word without dots or underscores. Also blanket banning whole domains is just much easier and already done for temporary emails. No false positives.
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Within the space of 2 weeks I had both Etsy and Mapbox block signups with Proton Mail aliases. The practice is rapidly becoming more common.
Blocking signups from proton.me is not the same thing as only allowing signups from the big mail providers.
What a load of pedantry.