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Disposable, anonymous email forwarding is a massive step forward for privacy. I know we've all been doing it for a while, but this on a consumer level is fantastic.
I wonder how many poorly designed database schemas this will break that used email as a primary key/id.
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No, you're clearly correct. But Apple pushing this does give it a sense of legitimacy and blocking signups from this service might just cause less signups than actually forcing people to use their real address. If Apple makes this extremely user friendly and quick to use than blocking it will cause a loss of signups.
Devils advocate: ‘Error: We love Apple and anonymity but we require a real email address to prevent fraud and to properly secure your account. Please enter your real email address.’
(potentially)
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No, you're clearly correct. But Apple pushing this does give it a sense of legitimacy and blocking signups from this service might just cause less signups than actually forcing people to use their real address. If Apple makes this extremely user friendly and quick to use than blocking it will cause a loss of signups.
Devils advocate: ‘Error: We love Apple and anonymity but we require a real email address to prevent fraud and to properly secure your account. Please enter your real email address.’
How long until sites start blocking the cloaked addresses? (although of course Apple can just churn those address patterns)
Can’t services just disallow/block this address? Fun thing is, Apple themselves block name+addon@gmail.com addresses when using their dev console. You can bet that some companies will disallow Apple’s signature private passwords similarly if they can, in the name of ‘security’ or what have you. Or am I being too cynical? Feel free to CMV. EDIT: best response addressing this seems to be ‘The addresses are only generat…
What is forcing the sites that I'd want to use a fake email address with to use this? It wouldn't be in their interest to. They will just stick with their current SSO setup of Google/Facebook/whatever and never touch this, if they have SSO at all. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea, I just don't know if it will be useful and successful.
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They already offer Apple Pay on the web. I imagine the experience will be similar here.
True, although that would imply Sign in with Apple would be Safari-only, which might be a hard sell.
Disposable, anonymous email forwarding is a massive step forward for privacy. I know we've all been doing it for a while, but this on a consumer level is fantastic.