4 ms·

Is iCloud's "Hide My E-mail" on the list too?

• cassianoleal 5y ago
  It doesn't look like it is: https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains/search?q=privaterelay.appleid.com https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email... Edit: icloud.com seems to be another domain used in Hide My Email but is also not present (although I guess this one is actually primarily used for permanent addresses): https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email-domains/search?q=icloud.com https://github.com/disposable-email-domains/disposable-email...
• EGreg 5y ago
  I think as long as it's just INCOMING email, what's the harm in it?
  • gnomewascool 5y ago
    Isn't Firefox Relay the same, though — you can receive e-mails, but not send unsolicited mail?
    • m-p-3 5y ago
      You can reply, at least I can with my premium subscription.
  • cuteboy19 5y ago
    People can use it to sign up for things like discord and then use that to spam. Though I guess even Gmail could be used for this
    • EGreg 5y ago
      To spam who? How? Sybil attax ?
• mdasen 5y ago
  No. Apple's "Hide My Email" uses the same `icloud.com` domain as the rest of their email addresses (unless you're using the "Sign-in with Apple" feature which uses `privaterelay.appleid.com`). Blocking `privaterelay.appleid.com` would be kinda pointless since you'd be breaking your "Sign-in with Apple" feature, but if you don't support that feature you could block it (theoretically, one could create a login for SiteA and use the private-relay address for SiteB). Blocking `icloud.com` would mean blocking lots of legitimate email addresses along with the hidden ones.
  • smoldesu 5y ago
    Genuinely curious, does anyone actually use an "@icloud.com" address to sign up for anything? I was under the impression that iCloud emails were only used as a FQDN for internal Apple services, but it's been ages since I've had an iCloud account.
    • hadcomplained 5y ago
      I registered several important accounts with @icloud.com email, because I was sure that I would never switch to Android besides the fact that the email looked cool (what a stupid reason in retrospect). I deeply regret using the @icloud.com address for anything serious, because you would be unable to receive or send emails as soon as your iCloud storage subscription expires, provided that you use a larger quantity of data than is allowed in the free-tier iCloud. This is what actually happened to me a few weeks ago. I forgot updating my credit card number on the Apple account, thereby making it impossible to renew the iCloud storage subscription, resulting in the inbox full of emails "Your iCloud storage is full" -- these are what replaced the emails that have been sent to the @icloud.com address after the subscription expired. In addition, I did not receive these emails even after I renewed the subscription. To this day I do not know what these emails were about.
    • FridgeSeal 5y ago
      > Genuinely curious, does anyone actually use an "@icloud.com" address to sign up for anything? Yep! one of my primary email accounts is an iCloud domain. It only gets used for services I know I’ll be using for a long time, or it’s particularly important.
• 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
  Of course not.
  • smoldesu 5y ago
    Why not, then?
    • 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y ago
      A few reasons. The hide my email addresses use the same domain as regular icloud email addresses. Apple always gets what it wants. They don't want to be sued by Apple.
      • smoldesu 5y ago
        How can Apple sue them for adding their domain name to a blacklist?