[paraxion]

Hang on, though: doesn't this essentially hand Apple a big list of which domains you communicate with and how frequently? There's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. I know a lot of people trust Apple more than Google, but you're essentially signing up for a vendor-locked product that you're hoping Apple will continue to support, with no guarantee they won't collect - even at an aggregate level - your communication preferences.

They're even slightly pre-filtered for Apple's convenience, as the times you're likely to use Hide My Email are for shopping and social media - nice, ripe marketing targets.

[spsful]

If you use Gmail, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. If you use Outlook, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through. If you use Yahoo, there's also nothing stopping them reading the emails on the way through.

If you use virtually any email provider this is true.

[paraxion]

Oh, absolutely that's true; even with privacy-focused, hosted systems like Proton or FastMail there's always that tiny shadow of doubt that they're doing what they're saying they do.

[tpxl]

Before, one entity could read your mails, and after, two entities can read your mails.

[onethought]

There is no lock in - you can login to "whatever app" and update your email to a new one anytime you like. It's just an email address in the end.

Also, unless you're encrypting your emails, can't everyone read your emails "on the way though" anyway?

[spacedcowboy]

With google, even if you’re encrypting. Gmail, even in the shiny incarnation, only supports server-hosted private keys. A private key that you must give to your service provider is about as useful as a chocolate teapot, imho.

[ip26]

If you are already on an @icloud.com address and/or using Apple Mail, what’s the difference?