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BoorishBearsyesterday at 7:53 PM1 replyview on HN

I guess their thought process is, both alias and non-alias accounts use @icloud.com

You were always able to reserve a normal icloud email address just like you would a GMail account, so banning all icloud email addresses would be banning non-alias Apple customers

That being said, I'm not convinced anyone who wanted to ban aliases couldn't have already. The alias emails look weird enough I'm guessing you could ban them with few false positives.


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SXXyesterday at 7:59 PM

> The alias emails look weird enough I'm guessing you could ban them with few false positives.

While this is true not all of them been weird. Some can be just word + number + word without dots or underscores.

Also blanket banning whole domains is just much easier and already done for temporary emails. No false positives.