Apple just nuked Hide My Email’s best privacy trick. New aliases are now (at)private(dot)icloud(dot)com - literally labeling them “this user wants to stay anonymous.”
Services can now mass-block every single one with one domain filter, while leaving regular (at)icloud
.com untouched.
The plausible deniability that made Hide My Email useful, the inability for a service to prove an address was anonymous, disappears.
The screenshot in the sub-post was taken from a CSV file you get when requesting your data from Apple. It's called "App Store Click Activity." Every event contains 110 attributes 🤯
In this PDF, Apple describes the data points collected in this category:
https://t.co/w15XfkdgsC
Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess water.
Your government is also considering banning solid food, as it presents a needless choking hazard.
You are not an adult.
You are a baby.
Eat the baby food.
Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: https://t.co/OcpinM33OX
Google is cutting the storage of new accounts from 15GB to 5GB UNLESS you give them your phone number.
This basically means that you're paying with your identity. Don't do that.
European governments are moving away from WhatsApp and Signal for official communications and switching to their own secure messaging systems that they fully control.
Countries including France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have adopted in-house platforms such as BEAM, Wire and Matrix-based tools.
The European Commission will complete its switch by the end of 2026, and NATO already runs its own dedicated system.
The issue is not encryption strength. Both WhatsApp and Signal use strong end-to-end encryption, their real concern is that these apps are run by US companies under US law and the governments want complete control over servers, metadata, data and access rules.
For individuals and organisations wanting the same level of control, Wire is a strong and accessible choice. It is Swiss-made, open-source, uses modern encryption, and can be self-hosted so your data stays under your control.
It is already used by thousands of German officials.