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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 HackerNewt-doms »

quotz wrote: post #99
jonotime wrote: post #82

Pro tip for doing something like this without apple. Buy or get a cheap domain name. Create a subdomain on it and have it catch and forward all messages to you when sent to that sub. For example: nytimes@mailsub.example.com -> jono@gmail anything-else@mailsub.example.com -> jono@gmail You dont even need to materialize aliases at all.

I do something similar, use an open source service called addy.io, bought a domain but you can also use their domains too, and each website has a separate login i create through bitwarden with the addy integration.

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Post by gnoll_of_gozag »

al_borland wrote: post #60
MoonWalk wrote: post #16

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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.

strange. i've used disposable emails for reddit accounts several times and everything worked

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Post by AgentMasterRace »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #227
hamdingers wrote: post #201

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Nowhere other than on HN have I seen so many people who are actively proud of their anti-consumer (and frankly anti-human) behaviour. It's a rather revealing look into the veil behind big tech. A lot of people have this misconception that it's evil $bigcorp forcing employees to do what earns a paycheck, but no, there's no shortage of normal people like yourself bragging about anything they can do to identify and trac…

Because this isn't Facebook, or your mom's of. It's a forum where your reputation doesn't matter. I'm not trying to sell you something or have you trust me.

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Post by pjc50 »

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.

Parking is expensive enough without having to pay a human.

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Post by pjc50 »

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…

I appreciate this ends up as your problem when it shouldn't be, but it feels so self-inflicted; someone using a privacy email has declared they don't want to receive email, so they shouldn't be surprised when .. they don't receive a shipping notification email.

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Post by throwuxiytayq »

frollogaston wrote: post #190
throwuxiytayq wrote: post #181

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Thankfully, we live in an unprecedented time of reasonable businesses lead by reasonable people. Close one. Nice save.

The unreasonable ones get my burner, so whatever

Yes, and Apple's "burner e-mail" service is about to become ineffective.

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Post by onel »

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.

You can't, no. It's the same story in Sicily. You can only pay for parking using an app, if you don't have a smartphone you just can't park. Luckily the parking app they have is pretty nice, but the requirement is infuriating

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Post by abirch »

pseudalopex wrote: post #219
abirch wrote: post #121

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I frequently buy a domain that I think is funny and use that to forward all my emails to my main email account. It's trivial to do from Cloudflare. Then after that 1 year is up, my domain goes away and so does all of the spam.

And the not spam?

I use my real email for those or I sign up with a new email from my new burner domain.

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Post by inigyou »

muse900 wrote: post #24
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.

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…

I think in most countries the only way to challenge this kind of thing is to park illegally and then go to court and claim it was impossible for you to park legally. Which is a hard process, on purpose.
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