Apple Hide My Email

“Since when did we start accepting that paying for providing OAuth sign-in for other companies is good?”

“As a result of being able to blackhole the leaked addresses I no longer get any spam”

“apple doesn't let you use your own domain, and generate random emails at that domain”

“It's an additional layer of wall for their walled garden to keep the technically proficient users that are more likely to hop walls.”

“it's just stupidly unfortunate that Apple calls both of these features hide my email”

“If you merely deactivate your email address rather than closing your account, the next time a legitimate service sends you email it will bounce.”

“a bug in some random API has allowed for the “hidden” Apple account to be revealed because they resolve hide my emails to the original internally”

“Whenever I start getting spam at an address that's been leaked, I deactivate it.”

“Only way for it to work and not be trivially blocked is to mix with legit emails.”

“I pay mainly for Hide My Email, just to organise things per domain, and it's cheap.”

“effectively unblockable (because they use the @icloud.com domain, at least for now”

“This alone could expose you by accident, since anyone would expect to reply with HME in any case, but you get exposed either way.”

“all these "privacy" features merely exist as excuse for getting people to hand off their mails to Apple”

“We think enough people rely on Hide My Email for personal safety that it would be irresponsible.”

“Not ideal, kinda dumb, and takes away a little bit of faith in humanity, but I don't have to type in the details.”

“This is a big downer for me, I have started using Hide My Email religiously.”

“it also helps prevent correlation across accounts and websites as data leaks occur”

“it's kind of cool having one-per-site though so you can tell who the "rat" is”

“this wonderful extension to make it easy to generate aliases”

“Hide My Email is pretty much the only Apple service I use”

“The private relay is for sites I want to hear from, but also want a failsafe in case they're hacked later.”

“For all of them Hide My Email avoids having to disclose your real email address. This is broken now.”

“Using iCloud solves those problems, but puts you at risk of getting your account banned and loosing access to those emails”

“It's not a fake e-mail, it's a legitimate e-mail that you can send e-mail to and the user will receive”

“having aliases on icloud is just much more convinient than having 10 accounts”

“Hide My Email has been essential to keep my digital life protected from abusive mail lists”

“It's actually useful compared to Gmail's useless "yourrealaddress+alais" that gives away your actual email anyway”

“if you have iCloud+ Apple's($0.99/month) hide my email is good”

“It's fantastic, and also lets you track exactly who leaked your email.”

“If you have iCloud+ Apple has an email aliasing service called Hidemyemail”

“iCloud has a great feature that allows you to generate unique aliases on the fly quickly and easily”

“If you use iCloud+ you can generate email aliases using a Raycast extension or a browser extension”

“I create a unique iCloud Hide My Email anytime I need to give out an email.”

“with @icloud.com addresses you can just delete an address and forget about it once it's burned”

“No more spam, whenever I start receiving spam to a Hide My Email address, I deactivate it.”

“it doesn’t really work when you “need” to give your email address in person”

“Burner email services like AnonAddy, iCloud "Hide my email", et al work well for actual receipt but also provide isolation.”

“you've already got the ability to generate virtual email addresses on the fly”

“I would point out that it kind of prevents you from checking if your email is in a leak database”

“aliases can be easily mapped back to your normal email address, unlike Apple's which are opaque”