Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

5 days ago by sanitation to c/privacy

In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.
48954246 18 points 5 days ago

Tldr: they are changing the domain from @icloud.com to @private.icloud.com which makes them distinguishable from normal icloud accounts.

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pipes 1 point 5 days ago

Not relevant but this title gore from Techcrunch can also mean the opposite! - it sounds like good news if hypotetically Apple plans to change the one feature (among the "Hide My Email" features) that was making it less effective

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sem 2 points 4 days ago

In this reality?

Tech only ever gets worse

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pipes 1 point 4 days ago

Nope, I was just pointing out the shitty title. Apple is definitely worsening the service

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