[DIVx0]

I would really love to see an official "hide my email" extension from Apple. I use this feature so much that I go out of my way to use it since I don't use Safari and that's the only integration for HME.

[mynameisvlad]

I have the same feature using 1Password and Fastmail. https://1password.com/fastmail/

Bonus is that I use a separate subdomain of my custom domain for disposable email addresses which means it never fails email checks (some don't like disposable/temporary email domains).

[endisneigh]

Doesn’t seem like a bonus. Your custom domain could just be blocked wholesale. Hide my email uses iCloud, not a separate domain. iCloud addresses probably won’t be blocked as that’s the default email given for hundred million plus Apple accounts.

[jrockway]

I used to use an MX record that had mailinator handle nospam.jrock.us email addresses... but stopped doing it for anonymity reason. ("whois nospam.jrock.us" whoops there's my home address!)

The alternative I currently use is letting Gmail handle the spam. I used to be big into [e-mail] for "foo" and that sort of thing, but every address ended up on every spam list anyway, and the filtering didn't increase the signal to noise ratio.

For true throwaways I just use mailinator. If I want to receive email from someone someday, I can just create another account. If they spam me, Google will filter it out. So it goes.

[bradgessler]

It’s bonkers to me that 1Password hasn’t rolled out a first-party forwarding service yet. It’s the one thing iCloud Keychain has on them.

[herunan]

Not official, but this one generally works great: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-hide-my-ema...

There’s also this nifty shortcut that works for both iOS and macOS: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6b0c16ff0dfb4814bd881112354...

[fieryskiff11]

Not really an Apple guy but this[0] came up first and its open source, have you seen it?

[0]: https://github.com/dedoussis/icloud-hide-my-email-browser-ex...

[cj]

I generated a “hide my email” forwarding address specifically for my HN profile last weekend.

Not via a chrome extension, but it’s pretty easy to generate one on any Mac (maybe even iOS?) in system settings. You can name the forwarding address to have different ones for different uses

Edit: re-read your comment and sounds like you’re already doing this manually, like me. I agree it’s a hassle and would love to see a more native UX that doesn’t involve opening system settings

[dedoussis]

Shameless plug: I've built the unofficial "Hide My Email" browser extension [0], available both in Firefox [1] and Chromium [2]. Tried to make it as frictionless as the Safari UX, which proved to be a challenge given the lack of native HME APIs.

[0] https://github.com/dedoussis/icloud-hide-my-email-browser-ex...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-hide-m...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-hide-my-ema...

[lxgr]

Same for Apple Pay. Given that I mostly buy thing on my computer, and that I don't use Safari there, I basically never use it, even though I would really prefer it over entering/auto-filling my card number.

[katbyte]

I’ll actually switch to safari explicitly for sure that support it because Apple Pay just makes it so easy/quick to buy things without accounts

[DaiPlusPlus]

Apple’s Hide-my-email service is only useful to people who don’t have their own domain-name for email. I assume most of here on HM have a vanity dot-com or dot-me that we just point to GMail (or maybe Office 365 if you lean that way) - all those services (not to mention self-hosted) allow us to set arbitrary, catch-all, and disposable addresses (even the perpetually un-cool O365 supports it now too).

I’ll never use Apple’s Hide-my-email service until they let us use it with our own domain-names. It’s my email mailbox and my dodgy account registration, not Apple’s.

[signalblur]

I wouldn’t say it’s only useful for people without vanity domain names - it also adds a level anonymity should the user database get leaked (IE: it’ll be a random HME account that will look like every other, vs your specific domain name)

Also FWIW you can use it with custom domains - I use it with fastmail and have since day one (their version of it isn’t as tightly integrated as Apple but they offer this service as well). Hope this helps!

[faeriechangling]

Hide my email is useful for avoiding linking accounts to a common identifier.

[tekeous]

SimpleLogin is much more featured and supports extensions on all major platforms.

[rumblestrut]

Oh man, I use that a lot.