I have 2 concerns:

  1. I recently read the firefox Terms Of Use paragraph that people are posting which doesn’t sound nice in terms of privacy.

  2. Back when Mozilla had their own Mastodon instance called mozilla.social, every time I signed in I would be blasted with trackers according to uBlock Origin.

I’m no expert in these things and I want to ask if anyone recommends that I switch away from Thunderbird Mail and if so, which open source email client? Thanks in advance.

  • sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I’m just in the process of moving to Evolution from TBird on my desktops for this reason. Not sure what to use now Moz bought K9

    • tursy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Does Betterbird even remove telemetry from Thunderbird? From my knowledge they only add a few Bugfixes and recompile the binary. Never heard them talking about telemetry, tracking etc. Does anybody know?

    • Rose@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      If you don’t trust the source, how is a fork built from the same source going to help?

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This doesn’t bode well at all: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/about/

    Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.

    A free mail client from a for-profit company? What’s the revenue model? Sounds like I must be the product somehow.

    The Thunderbird for-profit entity, MZLA Technologies Corporation, is distinct from the Firefox for-profit entity, Mozilla Corporation, and both are wholly owned by the non-profit entity, Mozilla Foundation.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      The page you linked

      You are not the product.

      To us, data ownership and privacy are your right wherever you live. Our commitment to your personal data is simple:

      We do not collect or store it unless you ask us to.

      We take great care to keep it safe from misuse.

      We will never sell it.

      You retain ownership and control of it.

      Heck even clicking the next link you posted has a full explanation. I can’t consider your comment to be anything other than the wilful spread of misinformation and slander.

      https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

      The move will allow the project to collect revenue through partnerships and non-charitable donations, which in turn can be used to cover the costs of new products and services.