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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by bryan_w on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:05PM (#24426468)
>Epic now has a very good reason to collect a working email address from every past iOS customer

Not just epic but any business really that obtains most of their customer base through sign in with apple.

Losing your entire customer base because of making apple mad is a risk that most businesses will now be unwilling to take.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by rootsudo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:01PM (#24426930)
Does using Apple Sign in not share your email address/identity?
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by fragmede on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:40PM (#24427262)
It can, but half the point of the service is that your personal email address is kept private. The service sees an obfuscated email address for the format <unique-alphanumeric-string>@privaterelay.appleid.com. Eg [email protected].
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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by abawany on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:21PM (#24427116)
I believe it generates a unique/obfuscated email address that is provided to the provider but their messages to that address arrive at your real icloud address. Edit0: reference https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210426
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