On: iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

[saretup]

It’s an additional layer of wall for their walled garden to keep the technically proficient users that are more likely to hop walls.

[leshenka → saretup]

Technically proficient users can figure out their own solutions for throwaway emails e.g. aforementioned Fastmail.

[brookst → leshenka]

Sure, but technically proficient users often have other things they want to spend their time on, outside of exercising technical proficiency on every single thing.

Heck, I don’t even do my own oil changes anymore despite it being easy. Life gets busy, you know?

[inigyou → leshenka]

Many systems out there have specific exceptions from their VPN policy for iCloud emails and iCloud private relay. Places that would immediately block fastmail because of its alias feature will not block iCloud because too many people use it. Market share is real power. You can ban 0.1% of your customers, you can't ban 30% of your customers.