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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 Bender »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

I ran into this with an NVMO mobile provider. They did not like my personal email domains (assorted .net and .org) so I nagged their customer support until they manually added it. Their marketing team happily emails my personal domains once added. Some day this will probably cause a problem but my goal is to eventually get rid of my cell phone either way.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by joeyhage »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

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.

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Post by HelloUsername »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #3

If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.

If your website needs an email address at all.. otherwise just use null@null.null, if it accepts and doesn't require a authentication code

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by SXX »

Cider9986 wrote: post #22

Determined sites could already easily do this. Just detect the patterns used. I agree it's a useless change though. heave_balks_0g@icloud.com It shouldn't matter for the sign in with apple because sites are already expressly supporting that. Email aliasing is hard because you want privacy from a herd of users, but then you're locked into that ecosystem versus a domain you control has no herd, but the upside is no loc…

Not all aliases it generated look like this, some look like these:

  viods01crew@icloud.com
  methyl.brick1h@icloud.com
In any case fact that some services banned alies is not the reason to make them completely useless instead of making them better.

Apple is one of few companies that ia able to push for this with market share.

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