Apple has refused About the planned changes to the Hide My Email feature that users say will make privacy tools less effective.
Hide My Email is a privacy feature for paid iCloud+ users who create a unique and disposable email address to provide websites instead of a person’s real email address and still have an email route to their regular mailbox. The benefit of the email hiding feature is that privately created email addresses cannot be distinguished from regular Apple users @icloud.com Email address. However, the feature also allows Apple to notify law enforcement Who is behind the masked email address?.
Earlier this year, the company said it would move users @private.icloud.comWhich users say will make it easier for websites to reject these email addresses during registration. On social media and Reddit threads, users criticized the change as defeating the purpose of the entire service.
The company confirmed the update on Monday that hiding my email address “will remain”. @icloud.comAfter previously saying that it will move the user @private.icloud.com.
Apple did not give reasons for changing its decision, but John Gruber of Daring FireballThe person who first reported about the face, said that Apple employees have always opposed the change.
Earlier this year, 404 Media reported That bug hides my email Reveal people’s real email addresses. Apple Fixed the bug More than a year after it was first reported that emails rejected as spam would leak the real email addresses of masked users.
