Hide My Email Moving to private.icloud.com Domain
Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com.
New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain.
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Existing addresses on the legacy domains will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.
It’s unclear to me what the benefit of this is. Is there a reason to migrate legacy addresses?
Arseniy Shestakov (Hacker News):
This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail.
This is certainly a big hit for iCloud privacy, since some plausible deniability together with Apple’s backing made banning iCloud aliases costly. But now a lot of services will just refuse to accept these emails, just like what happens with free temporary mailboxes.
But my retort is that a service that won’t accept these email addresses is one that I probably don’t want to have anything to do with. The only reason not to accept
private.icloud.comemail addresses is if you want to do something invasive with users’ actual email addresses.
The main problem I have with Hide My Email is that some customers use it and then have no way to look up their purchase info via e-mail because they don’t know which address they used. Of course, I wouldn’t reject such addresses, but I wonder if services will start using the new domain to recognize that Hide My Email is being used and nudge the user to provide a different address.
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Unsurprisingly Gruber does some mental acrobatics to turn this into some genius Apple move… sigh
