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Apple has that with their Hide My Email service (included in the iCloud+ subscription at $0.99/month). It nudges you to create a new alias on every form that contains an email field.

The good part is the that aliases are inconspicuous @icloud.com email addresses that don't follow a specific pattern and are thus:

1) Accepted everywhere (contrary to custom domains — which I also have).

2) Are pretty much impossible to detect ahead of time.

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For illustrative purposes I just clicked several times on the generate new Hide My Email button and it returned those:

  pie.tall9x@icloud.com
  
  drivels_eras4x@icloud.com
  
  showier.sizzle-7y@icloud.com
I have around 160 aliases so far, I'm not sure what the limit is (if there is one).





Congrats, you're now married to Apple forever

These are burner addresses, the vast majority of which I don't care about. If I ever wanted to move away, iCloud conveniently can show me each address, when I created it, and for what site. I could then change my address on the few sites I wanted to retain the account on.

I actually have a domain I setup with Fastmail just for burner addresses, but Apple offers enough additional functionality (easier to use, tracks the site I created it for and when) that I keep using Apple's offering.


I’m resigned to that now, Apple would have to do something particularly egregious to move me away.

EBay refuses these addresses for new accounts.

I just tried to create a new account and it worked just fine.



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