Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

	Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless(arseniyshestakov.com)
	506 points by SXX 22 hours ago \| 320 comments
	tl;dr: Apple is moving Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases to a new `@private.icloud.com` subdomain, making it trivial for services to block all relay addresses without affecting regular iCloud mail users. This undermines the privacy value of Hide My Email, since previously the aliases were harder to distinguish from real iCloud accounts. Users wanting to preserve existing `@icloud.com` aliases should generate them before the change takes effect (rate-limited to ~30/hour).
	HN Discussion: ↓Sites that block privacy emails aren't worth using anyway, undermining the article's concern ↑Hide My Email is becoming useless or impractical due to Apple's change ↑Use your own domain with catch-all forwarding or third-party aliases instead of Apple ~Hide My Email already had fundamental design flaws beyond this change ~Determined sites could already detect aliases via patterns, so impact is limited