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Re:My small revenge on Apple by dmitriid on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:17AM (#28060650)
> Emails could be masked before Apple ID came along. Namely, gmail addresses let you do this.

How? I've used gmail for over a decade now, and I have no idea how to do that with my address.

> I don't trust FB or Google either

And yet you have no qualms providing a login through either of them both in the app and on the web.

So much for "I care about security and privacy".

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Re:My small revenge on Apple by baryphonic on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:53AM (#28061700)
Gmail has the `+` trick and ignores any `.`s in the name area. E.g. `[email protected]`, `[email protected]` and `[email protected]` will all deliver to the same gmail inbox.

It's not nothing (I tend to use it to track how my email address is being sold), but not a real level of masking, since anyone in the know could regenerate the "standard" address easily.

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Re:My small revenge on Apple by collaborative on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:29AM (#28073461)
https://www.labnol.org/internet/disposable-email-address/280...
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