If Mozilla or name your blessed organization of choice came up with this system, most of them would be fine with it.
But because it’s Apple, there’s all this consternation about it.
Apple’s huge advantage: their revenue comes from devices and services, not advertising.
It would be different if this was a one-off but they’ve been implementing privacy features for several years…
I think people would have the same issue if Google required ‘Sign In With Google’ in play store apps that have Facebook login, and returned throwaway / proxies email addresses.
Yet this one is not a pro-privacy feature, it's an "apple owns your privacy" feature. Apple will control your account access and even be able to read your emails. Sure you trust them, but in the future they 'll use it to push their own ecosystem (like apple payments) to developers. We 've had single sign-ons for too many years to know that any ecosystem lock-in is a bad thing. As bad as email sounds, it's still the free-est , most decentralized login provider available.
> If Mozilla or name your blessed organization of choice came up with this system, most of them would be fine with it.
Mozilla came up with Persona, which would be great if they pushed it further and perhapps provided an anonymous email relayer like this instead of being based on existing email providers. With Mozilla the big advantage is that your account is not tied to any other service, real name, credit card etc. I wouldn't use Apple Login to sign up to a porn site, despite the high standards of apple's security.