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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 int_19h »

janc_ wrote: post #266
cube00 wrote: post #114

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I've found using a subdomain helps with that, spammers will try everything@domain.tld but won't bother trying to brute force subdomains. However be warned some surprisingly large websites don't support subdomains, for example eBay will silently send user@sub.domain.tld to user@domain.tld and you'll only figure it out by looking at your server logs for rejected mail. In those cases I have to specifically alias that us…

Why would anyone entrust money to a company like eBay if they are this incompetent at something as simple as e-mail?

Because the world runs on incompetence, so it's ultimately unavoidable (best case, you don't know that something important that you're relying on is run incompetently).

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by int_19h »

utilize1808 wrote: post #42
w10-1 wrote: post #6

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Before, the emails were "me@icloud.com", the default for all apple users. There was no way to distinguish normal emails from generated private emails. Now, they will be "blah@private.icloud.com", so it will be easy to ban the generated/private email that reduces the ability to associate logins across services. Unclear why Apple would shoot themselves in this way; I hope it's not Ternus complying with anti-privacy.

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.

For most online businesses, blocking Apple email servers sounds like a good way to kill off the portion of your customer base that has the most money to spend.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #77
c7b wrote: post #64

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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.

Are you sure you don’t have this backwards? Some B2B websites only accept sign-ups from domains not associated with Gmail, Yahoo, and similar providers.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by drdexebtjl »

drnick1 wrote: post #221
shoo_pl wrote: post #108

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The problem is if someone figures it out and starts sending you spam to {random}@domain.tld. That's when you will need to sit down and start creating actual aliases for all those used email addresses and stop the catch-all forwarding:) Also, another downside is that you will loose privacy by using your own domain. And the lack of privacy makes targeted scam/phishing more likely, and targeted scam is the one we are mo…

> Also, another downside is that you will loose privacy by using your own domain. Not really no. You can absolutely create a domain using bogus WHOIS information. No one will bat an eyelid.

WHOIS isn't a factor here. If an attacker knows or deduces that you're the only individual receiving mail at *@yourdomain.example [1], they can track you across different databases by just looking for your domain name.

The privacy preserving aspect of hide-my-email services is the fact that they have thousands of users using the same domain name.

[1]: This is trivial if you have a service's email database leak. You just find all domains that have exactly one user. If the service targets individuals (who would sign up with personal emails, not work emails) and is reasonably popular, you'll get a pretty good list of single-user domains.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by userbinator »

drnick1 wrote: post #65
muse900 wrote: post #24

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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…

Can you not pay with cash or card anywhere? What if you don't have a "smart" phone? I would categorically refuse to park anywhere that requires running a proprietary app on my device. Fortunately, in the States at least, I have not encountered such a place yet.

I do wonder if the "illegal not to accept cash" laws in some states have been applied to this situation.

Note that sometimes the risk is low, and changing your plate is cheaper if you do get a fine...

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by rufo »

janc_ wrote: post #254
bb88 wrote: post #204

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I did that too years ago, but the management of it was kind of annoying. DKIM was just getting introduced when I stopped using it. SPF had controversy. I understand both of those are awesome now. The biggest issue was if your ip address got listed in a RBL (Realtime Blackhole List), and then nobody would talk to you. Some were easy to get off, others were permanent blocks, and I found those to be constantly interferi…

Most RBLs are scams. No competent mail admin uses them to block mail ever.

…lots of major mail services do?

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591413-Spa...

https://senders.yahooinc.com/smtp-error-codes/

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/email-errors

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by wpm »

danpalmer wrote: post #252

Hide My Email is fundamentally broken in two major ways: 1. Services those emails are used with cannot unilaterally send email to them. They must pre-register how they will send email to them, which breaks services with third-party relationships such as online retail with payment processors or shipping companies. Users don't like not receiving shipping notifications, and users don't like not seeing invoices or at wor…

If you have iCloud Keychain enabled you don't have to "remember" a sign-in at all. Flip a toggle, say "Yes" when Safari offers to remember the new password you generated for the fake email you generated in a drop down menu, and you're a FaceID/TouchID away from auth. My 80 year old uncle can manage this.

I have been a happy Hide My Email user for years. This is simply not a problem, and even for normies it's no more a problem than "can't remember password at all".

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by al_borland »

roboror wrote: post #251
al_borland wrote: post #169

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You don’t need an account to access the information. It’s also all been sucked up my the LLMs, for better or worse.

It's full circle now and a large portion of posts and comments are now LLM generated responses, whether by a bot or copy/pasted by a human.

All the more reason to stop visiting.

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Post by rapidaneurism »

gedy wrote: post #210
ivanjermakov wrote: post #50

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Have exactly the same situation with parking in Italy. Having a private company operating all paid parking on an island is not very healthy.

It's too bad there's no one willing to be a parking lot attendant on an Italian island.

I think there is plenty of people, but they have these obscene demands about getting paid a living wage.

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Post by ElFitz »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #264
HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #240

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The what?

basically you have to use parkmobile in many places unless you carry literally rolls full of quarters due to the depreciation of the USD, some places dont even have machines anymore. ParkMobile is a moneygrabbing operation that municipalities use to run their parking stuff - yay saas. They got hacked and leaked everyones phone numbers, license plates, history, and more. The settlement in court was - you got I believe…

That, especially the conclusion, is hilariously bad.
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