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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 cavoirom »

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…

For now I think Hide My Email is for power users! It's on the user side to manage their identities. My current workflow:

- Label Hide My Email with the service name I registered with it. Add number or nickname if I have multiple accounts on that service. - Add an email rules to move the email addressed to that Hide My Email addressuu to a separate inbox. - Use the same label in password manager, also save the email to the password manage entry.

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Post by sneak »

SXX wrote: post #300
sneak wrote: post #295

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It's E2EE (only if you turn it on, which you can't do in the UK) but it saves (non-encrypted) the hashes of the plaintext of the files to Apple (presumably for dedup). This allows Apple to see which sets of users share unique Winnie the Pooh memes. They know who had them first, who they sent them to, and when. The E2EE is useless with such unencrypted metadata leaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8_caB35Pg

> only if you turn it on, which you can't do in the UK Fortunately changing Apple account country is as easy as buying US gift card on Amazon and unlike Google they dont mess with account location. As about encryption I totally agree its pretty meh, but again it's not why I paid my $1.

It’s not based on Apple account country, and even if it were, it’s not nearly that simple to switch it.

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Post by valleyer »

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.

You might not have used one, but there have long been parking meters / payment kiosks that take charge cards and even cash. Neither an app nor a human attendant is required. It bugs me that these are slowly being replaced by smartphone app systems.

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Post by HackerNewt-doms »

cube00 wrote: post #102
switz wrote: post #92

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I do this. The awkward thing is when I am in person or on the phone and have to explain that my customer email address is [their_business_name]@my_weird_domain.tld But the people usually just nod along. The other downside is that it's forward-in only, wish I could proxy responses without setting up a whole new inbox (and outbox).

> The only awkward thing is when I am in person or on the phone and have to explain that my customer email address I had one small business aggressively threaten me that they fully owned their business name and I wasn't allowed to use it in my email address. My solution was to keep my wonderful aliases and dump them. If a business is concerned but nice about it I'll offer an alternative such as plumber@ > The other d…

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Post by mikeington »

Slash65 wrote: post #134
drnick1 wrote: post #65

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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.

In my city in Northern California our downtown uses an app for parking now. I don’t use it so it’s still an option, but you have to goto a kiosk, enter your license plate number, and pay with card. It’s made the downtown more of a ghost town (admittedly it was already dying) and the boomers with cash just don’t go. The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for pr…

I have more parking apps on my phone than any other type of app. I begrudgingly download them for some semblance of convenience, but get annoyed that I'm logging in each time as it may be months since I used it, and towns changing apps means I likely have some high percentage of void apps that I keep around just in case. Living in New England doesn't help with lots of small towns, but even Cambridge has multiple apps depending on if you are parking on the street vs in a garage.

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Post by trueno »

jawiggins wrote: post #8

> If you use iCloud+ and Hide My Email, there is still time to generate more aliases on @icloud.com as the change has not yet landed and the rate limit for creating aliases is at least 30 per hour. Part of the reason to use Hide My Email was that it made keeping myself private hassle-free. Making a system to pre-generate values and then catalog them for later use is quite the hassle.

is it possible to automate this

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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Post by kay_o »

gerdesj wrote: post #200
kay_o wrote: post #186

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in asia it is frequent that email domain is a dropdown not a type in

Asia is huge. Please be more explicit (if you can).

China, Japan ish are where I have seen it the most.

Weibo, Sina you get "Failed registration (mail not supported)" if you enter non-major provider. In china nearly everyone is using qq, 163, 126, sina. Probably >99%

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