Comment by rendaw

Comment by rendaw 6 hours ago

Hide my email replaces your email with an apple controlled intermediate address, right? Is there any reason apple couldn't reuse the same intermediate address for you?

I thought the main things were making it so they don't have your actual email to track/trace, that when you unsubscribed they couldn't continue to spam you, and maybe let apple track spammers, all of which would be fine with a persistent fake email...

I mean, facilitating multiple accounts, while it could be nice, seems way beyond the UX apple provides and isn't a typical paradigm for most software... this seems like an apple issue.

wodenokoto 6 hours ago

It’s because the Sign in with Apple dialogue failed to recognize that it already has an account with said service.

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Barbing 5 hours ago

>making it so they don't have your actual email to track/trace

Indeed solved with persistent email (also solved by creating random new Gmail one time without paying for iCloud+)

>when you unsubscribed they couldn't continue to spam you

Once pwned (or in case of dishonest company selling data or changing outbound sending domains), it’d be one email to get spammed from all over the place

>maybe let apple track spammers

Suppose they could do this if folks used a single regular @iCloud email too, but it’s very important it’s a new email every time to prevent spam as mentioned before.

Big big point: we don’t want to be tracked by data brokers buying data then correlating emails across services. (Sorry for ineloquent reply, someone can do better but I’m pretty sure I’m barking up the right tree)

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Someone 5 hours ago

> >making it so they don't have your actual email to track/trace
> Indeed solved with persistent email (also solved by creating random new Gmail one time without paying for iCloud+)
If you make a “random new Gmail one time” and use that everywhere, that email address, for the purpose of tracking, is your actual email. People correlating your data across sites will not be able to infer your name from your email address, but that’s it.

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