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lategloriousgnu | 4 years ago

The difference with Apple's hide my address feature, is that it will only give you one per site. So even though it's an address generated specifically for that website, it's still your "primary" email for that domain.

If you signup for Netflix using the feature, you can't cancel your account and then signup with a new Apple email, it will only allow you to login with your original one.

This negates the primary reason for blacklists like in OP, in that users generate multiple disposable addresses, within the one domain, for their single identity, usually to circumvent account limits, user blocks etc.

This whole thread is going on about spam but most have misunderstood what "spam" the blocklist is trying to tackle. It's there to tackle people signing up with a disposable address, spamming or abusing the platform, getting blocked and then creating a new account to do the same thing again.

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artdigital|4 years ago

> If you signup for Netflix using the feature, you can't cancel your account and then signup with a new Apple email, it will only allow you to login with your original one.

You absolutely can. You can generate as many as you want, whenever you want

lategloriousgnu|4 years ago

Ah, on further reading it looks like there are a couple parts to it.

I have only used the "Sign in with Apple" feature directly in apps, which only ever lets you create one for that app.

However, apparently with an iCloud+ subscription, you can generate arbitrary email addresses from within iCloud itself, and then use those wherever you like.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT210425