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how is the user being held hostage? you can redirect hide my email addresses to any domain
by dilyevsky 23d ago
how is the user being held hostage? you can redirect hide my email addresses to any domain
- travoc 23d agoMarketing turds can't just block registrations from all of @icloud.com.
- dymk 23d agoThat doesn’t explain how the user is held “hostage” by Apple
- HeavenFox 23d agoHostage may be a bad analogy. More like a game of chicken. Imagine you are a regular @icloud.com email user. Apple is basically saying "I dare you to block all @icloud.com email and lose all these customers"
- bobthepanda 23d agoyou could say the same thing about AWS or Cloudflare hosting anybody and everybody. Spain actually started blocking a bunch of their IP blocks during football matches due to a poorly thought out legal decision.
- inigyou 22d agoSo the website is being "held hostage", not the user.
- hollow-moe 22d agoThe user is held hostage as much as the platforms because it's used as "currency" to force other sites to do things they may not want to, i.e. create accounts using private emails, and the platforms are held hostage by these same users expecting to be able to create accounts using their legit or private icloud emails. It looks like some kind of "who will break first", is there a service big enough to be able to block all icloud emails and it'd be a sufficient inconvenience to force apple to rethink how private email works ?
- N19PEDL2 23d agoCan they block registrations from @private.icloud.com?
- cr3ative 23d agoYes, they would have been able to if the proposal had gone ahead.
- aareet 23d agoI think the other answers are misinterpreting your question. A user is held "hostage" because unlike fastmail where the format is word.salad@yourdomain; if you ever wanted to ditch iCloud completely, you'd have to go through every single account you used it for and update the email. As someone who has shed his gmail account I can tell you it's not easy to update email address on every site you've ever used it on. The issue people are raising is that apple doesn't let you use your own domain, and generate random emails at that domain. Not my complaint, but I can see the perspective.
- flyingshelf 23d agoI mean, that is no different than any other provider. If you want to degoogle, you still have to go to each site and change your staticuser@gmail.com individually. Most users already do not use custom domains if that's the catch.
- pasc1878 23d agoYes you can do word.salad@yourdomain with fastmail but that ius no different to other mail providers. What the above comments re fastmail is about their masked email service this gives addresses like <random>@fastmail.com so this is the same lockin as Apple with the same benefits of noone is going to block that domain.