Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking

Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking

June 24, 2026 · 28 min

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The episode discusses Apple's changes to Hide My Email, Google's ad tracking plans, and recent surveillance laws in Canada and the UK.

Apple is moving Hide My Email aliases to a new private.icloud.com subdomain, which makes it trivial for any app or website to spot a private email and block the signup. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report! In This Episode: Google preparing to use IP addresses for ad measurement across the EEA, UK & Switzerland (Aug 3) Chrome moving to fully block MV2, the last uBlock Origin workarounds are going away New surveillance laws in Canada + a UK push to ban social media for under-16s (with the age-verification nightmare that follows) The Arch Linux AUR malware saga...1,500+ packages, two waves Full Defense Bulletin: Texas (3M IDs), LastPass, FIFA's wide-open World Cup portal, and a stack of FOSS updates 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE Become a Techlorian and keep this show growing: ★ Support this podcast ★ 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-googles-ip-tracking/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT (00:36)…

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