An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
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An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
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Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#2As an android user I've never seen this before -- this seems way better than email+tag@gmail.com
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#3As an android user I've never seen this before -- this seems way better than email+tag@gmail.com
There is SimpleLogin[0] and Mozilla Private Relay[1] as more generic options. I've never tried them as I struggle to figure out how trustworthy they are. At the end of the day, emails are essentially proxied by these products.
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#4I've been using yopmail for years to avoid spam, but the problem is that a lot of services have blocked yopmail and other disposable email addresses.
The nice thing with "hide my email" and Fastmails "masked addresses" is that the two services use a popular domain, so sites can't easily block it.
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#5I've been using yopmail for years to avoid spam, but the problem is that a lot of services have blocked yopmail and other disposable email addresses. The nice thing with "hide my email" and Fastmails "masked addresses" is that the two services use a popular domain, so sites can't easily block it.
Yep, I used to use Mailinator, sometimes others, but they eventually end up blocked in Marketing-hungry websites.
Even myname+random@gmail.com and similar can get blocked from registration on some websites now.
The difference here is the power of iCloud. Services can't afford to block it.
This is similar to Domain Fronting [1]. Maybe we should call this email fronting?
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#6I use this feature extensively.
My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#7Huge fan of this, started using it for practically every signup. I've already had the opportunity to shitcan an alias because it obviously got dumped to some advertisement list.
Now I just need to work on untangling 15 years of other services from my main account.
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#8Where is the ode to the likes of AnonAddy that have been about for a long time now AND are provides much better service?
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#9I use this feature extensively. My only wish is that it were easier to send an outgoing email via a Hide My Email address (rather than only being about to reply once the other party has sent the first message).
Yup, this makes is unusable for me. Try AnonAddy bro, its much better. You even get iOS app to manage your aliases on the go.
Re: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
#10I don't use Safari but I still use this feature a lot even though I have to do a few extra steps because it does not integrate with anything other than Safari, its that useful for me.
Some sites have never worked properly with the email+tag@gmail.com thing and some have even become wise to it and wont accept addresses like that (car dealers are the worst).
I hope someday apple allows 3rd party integration with this feature.