Re:An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
by Liquid_Fire on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:05AM
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I have a very uncommon name (though not unique) and I've had people mistakenly signing up for services with my [email protected] (which I don't usually sign up to services with).
The annoying thing is the number of services these days that don't seem to require you to verify your email. Examples of the above included eBay and Spotify. On both occasions I had to contact support to ask them to delete the account.
> That's the point, if you don't use your name in your address, you can't be <genericname>@<genericdomain>, which third parties will provide as their email,
I’m still not following. Who is this third party and what does it have to do with a confused receptionist?
That's the point, if you don't use your name in your address, you can't be <genericname>@<genericdomain>, which third parties will provide as their email,
Because I use the same scheme you do I've never had that issue, but several friends with common names have hit the issue having registered to more "normal" hosts, often as somewhat early adopters and thus having gotten their pick.