I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.
Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.
For fairness, I just disabled my Ad Blocker to check, and the popup seems to have changed, but the previous popups were quite explicit about sharing your email with the website:
While I don't consider myself an apple fanboy by any means they really did do a good job with their apple sign in, I don't know the full process but they seem to use an email from a pool of apple IDs for emails that prevent the app/service ever getting your real email.
It would be easy to assume that other oath providers are doing the same but absolutely not.
Yep, it uses an auto-generated @icloud.com for "Hide my Email" (useable in any website, or even if you want to give to someone in person) and @privaterelay.appleid.com when you use "Sign In With Apple".
This is quite visible in User Accounts where I work... while they do cause some issues from time to time (when the user disables the relay address for an active account), it guarantees privacy.
But I don't know if other popular single-sign-on provider do this.
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Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.
For fairness, I just disabled my Ad Blocker to check, and the popup seems to have changed, but the previous popups were quite explicit about sharing your email with the website:
https://superuser.com/questions/1414410/how-to-disable-googl...
I can't confirm whether the email is still shared. It used to be the case from late 2010s up to a few years ago.
While I don't consider myself an apple fanboy by any means they really did do a good job with their apple sign in, I don't know the full process but they seem to use an email from a pool of apple IDs for emails that prevent the app/service ever getting your real email.
It would be easy to assume that other oath providers are doing the same but absolutely not.
Yep, it uses an auto-generated @icloud.com for "Hide my Email" (useable in any website, or even if you want to give to someone in person) and @privaterelay.appleid.com when you use "Sign In With Apple".
This is quite visible in User Accounts where I work... while they do cause some issues from time to time (when the user disables the relay address for an active account), it guarantees privacy.
But I don't know if other popular single-sign-on provider do this.