# Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-google-s-ip-tracking Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-google-s-ip-tracking.md Podcast: [Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322) Published: 2026-06-24T16:35:59+00:00 Episode link: https://techlore.tech/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-googles-ip-tracking/ Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/f7f011d2/d658a65f.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/episodes/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-google-s-ip-tracking Duration seconds: 1672 ## Resource 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. ๐Ÿ”Ž 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 ๐Ÿงก SUPPORT TECHLORE Become a Techlorian and keep this show growing: โ˜… Support this podcast โ˜… ๐Ÿ”— SOURCES & LINKS View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-googles-ip-tracking/ โฑ๏ธ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT (00:36) - APPLE WEAKENING HIDE MY EMAIL (06:26) - CHROME FORMALLY ENDING MV2 (09:12) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS! (10:32) - UK & CANADA SURVEILLANCE (15:44) - MALWARE IN THE AUR (18:34) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES (21:40) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS (24:36) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+ ๐ŸŽฅ VIDEO Watch on YouTube ๐Ÿ“ฐ ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORT Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/episodes/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-google-s-ip-tracking/transcription-requests` โ€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-google-s-ip-tracking.md` โ€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.