Hide My Email

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Hide My Email, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Changing the Forward To address silently does nothing, with no error message2026-10-19
Users can't figure out which private email they signed up with, so they end up with duplicate accounts2026-06-17
Pre-generating and cataloguing aliases is a hassle compared to instant creation2026-06-16
Can't change email or password when using a plus-alias with some services2022-04-10
Disabling forwarding requires many steps across a slow, changing Apple ID portal2021-08-27