Apple is about to change Hide My Email domain

Apple is changing the domain of its private email aliasing system. I disagree with the premise companies will just ban the address. Why would they just outright deny a huge potential market and face the wrath of social media on the matter..

Long story short: now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the @private.icloud.com subdomain. 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.

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