Two billion email addresses were exposed

Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by sometimes_all on Friday November 07, 2025 @02:16AM (#45844225)

As someone who uses both, I much rather prefer aliases to hide-my-email for the more important stuff. For one, I can choose the email address "username", which I cannot with Apple's solution. Plus, what happens when I move on from Apple to something else?

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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by bn-usd-mistake on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:36AM (#45845757)

But aliases can be easily mapped back to your normal email address, unlike Apple's which are opaque. I, too, am afraid of vendor lock-in though. Sadly, couldn't find a good alternative yet

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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by sometimes_all on Saturday November 08, 2025 @01:41AM (#45854650)

Not sure where you're coming from - my original email address is not being shown in headers, so those seem fairly opaque. Probably depends on your email provider?

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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by ziml77 on Saturday November 08, 2025 @02:29PM (#45859240)

There's no solution to lock-in because there must be some massively shared domain that the email address exists on for the anonymity of the service to properly work. However if you are simply looking for an alternative to Apple, Fastmail offers a masked email service too.

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