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  • Good. What else can really be said? Only way for it to work and not be trivially blocked is to mix with legit emails.
    by amazingamazing
  • Oh I glad there is still someone at Apple who understood its insanity. If only they made it generate a bit more sensible alias names.

    UPD: I obviously mean alias addresses template make most of them too easy to recognize.

    by SXX
  • Can someone explain the backstory behind this? I'm reading some of the comments here and I feel like I'm missing something here.
    by giwook
  • I'm glad they listened - I use this feature extensively and would like to continue to
    by joshuat
  • I wish I could set up "Sign in with Apple" on a blog without paying $99/yr for a developer license.
    by philip1209
  • One of the best things about it. Also being able to add several emails per custom domain for free.

    Whole thing is 99c a month. Makes Gmail seem like a joke in comparison.

    Until you get an email from an iCloud address on Gmail and see it go right to spam haha. Suddenly Gmail is cheap again

    by NotThatFast
  • Using icloud.com domain for legit and hidden adresses is such a typical Apple strategy of holding their own users and "others" (ie. other web services, other users etc) hostage simultaneously. But at least here it is actually a good reason that works for the user.
    by hollow-moe
  • This is a huge selling point. Private email relays often get blocked, the only lasting solution is to put them on the same domain as, and in the same format as, a significant number of non-private email addresses. As far as I’m aware the only other provider doing this is Fastmail.

    Comments about lock-in aren’t wrong, but it has to be this way. You can make arbitrary email addresses at your own domain, but anybody who feels like it can trivially automatically detect that those are all you.

    Personally I use unique at own domain only where I’m identifying myself anyway, like my bank, and Fastmail masked email where I’m not. For most things it’s not actually that terrible to accept a small risk that they’re offline for a day between your being booted without warning and you changing your email address with them.

    by kqp

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