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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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could be .io .co .ai

But those have been around forever. The newer ones (.shop, .wiki, etc.) are >3 and it makes more sense to me they wouldn't be handled correctly.

I don't know the specifics. I can imagine someone using a regex like

^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{3}$

it worked for the emails that the web dev tried and you have to have a valid email address to file a complaint.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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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.

Park City, Utah - although there were meters that could accept card or cash available, none worked. App was the only functional way to pay. This was 3-4 years ago, not during ski season but getting close to it (October or November).

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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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.

Reddit doesn't even require an email address to make an account. You can just leave the email field blank.

I don't think so. They send a confirmation mail.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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

Last couple of accounts I created with proton accounts were immediately shadow banned I could post but my posts were not visible to anyone else

Cowardly, despicable behavior.

Also practiced on this site.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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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.

I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

I have been "permanently" banned for embarrassing some abusive moderators; now it has become a vendetta. I'm not sure how many user-identifying methods they attempt, but it overcomes VPN usage. I obfuscate my Web traffic now and it seems to have foiled these losers.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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For me personally, Hide My Email is binding me to the Apple ecosystem more than iMessage (but I'm European).

Like yes that, but also. Why would I want to hide my email from someone but not from Apple? And why can’t I turn it off and choose not to hide my email? This is one of my top Apple ‘features’ that would make me migrate away, if not for android being similarly awful

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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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…

Sometime ago I had to pay for parking to get access to a hiking trail (in US). The way to pay for parking was shady as hell. Just a random QR code sticker on the wall that said "pay here" that navigated to a payment portal that asked for your CC, address, license plate. I mentioned to my friend who was with me, "anyone could really just put any sort of QR code here and navigate you to a fake payment portal and steal…

Roll the dice; pay the ticket if cited. The cost of parking.

Re: Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

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> The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for privacy apparently. They were literally trained not to value their privacy. The first generation of ipad kids now have driver's licenses.

I hear some take pride in being “digital native” and only knowing a world where smartphones are a ubiquitous part of your life. I’m quite content having grown up without being always online. The childhood I had where what I did between school time and when my parents expected me home for dinner were mine alone. Every event was not recorded by 50+ cameras with bad seats and posted online for nobody to watch. A truly e…

I think we might very well see those times again except it will be very challenging to find food. Good luck.
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