3 outlets·3 reports·over 27h
Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Apple intends to modify its Hide My Email privacy feature by relocating the generated aliases to the private.icloud.com domain. This change will allow services to readily differentiate those aliases from standard iCloud email addresses, enabling them to block the aliases more easily, which could reduce the feature’s effectiveness.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
- TechCrunch·Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
- TechMeme·Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (Arseniy Shestakov)
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