Hartley Charlton for MacRumors: Apple is unifying the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain later this summer. Sign in with Apple currently uses privaterelay.appleid.com, while Hide My Email uses icloud.com, the same domain as standard iCloud email addresses. That shared domain has historically made it difficult for services to selectively block disposable iCloud addresses. Blocking icloud.com outright would also block legitimate users with standard Apple email accounts. With the new subdomain, that tradeoff disappears. This has been making the rounds ever since Apple announced that Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email will be moving to @private.icloud.com a few days ago. Currently, Sign in with Apple uses @privaterelay.appleid.com and iCloud+ Hide My Email uses @icloud.com. While the concerns are definitely valid, my knee-jerk reaction is that if there is a site/service that goes out of its way to…
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Yeah, IMO people using disposable iCloud addresses are legitimate Apple email users. They just want to be sure someone isn't going to abuse knowing that address.