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Apple has that with their Hide My Email service (included in the iCloud+ subscription at $0.99/month). It nudges you to create a new alias on every form that co
by noname120 2y ago
Apple has that with their Hide My Email service (included in the iCloud+ subscription at $0.99/month). It nudges you to create a new alias on every form that contains an email field.
The good part is the that aliases are inconspicuous @icloud.com email addresses that don't follow a specific pattern and are thus:
1) Accepted everywhere (contrary to custom domains — which I also have).
2) Are pretty much impossible to detect ahead of time.
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For illustrative purposes I just clicked several times on the generate new Hide My Email button and it returned those:
pie.tall9x@icloud.com
drivels_eras4x@icloud.com
showier.sizzle-7y@icloud.com
I have around 160 aliases so far, I'm not sure what the limit is (if there is one).
- upcoming-sesame 2y agoCongrats, you're now married to Apple forever
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoI’m resigned to that now, Apple would have to do something particularly egregious to move me away.
- js2 2y agoThese are burner addresses, the vast majority of which I don't care about. If I ever wanted to move away, iCloud conveniently can show me each address, when I created it, and for what site. I could then change my address on the few sites I wanted to retain the account on. I actually have a domain I setup with Fastmail just for burner addresses, but Apple offers enough additional functionality (easier to use, tracks the site I created it for and when) that I keep using Apple's offering.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoEBay refuses these addresses for new accounts.
- noname120 2y agoI just tried to create a new account and it worked just fine.