Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first
Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first
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Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first
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"Gmail alternative"
Email. Just say email. It's email.
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The word you are looking for is 'webmail'.
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Sadly "Gmail" is what a lot of people know mail as. They're not even aware anything other than Gmail and outlook exists. I at least always have friends and family looking at me weird every time I tell them my mail is the name of my custom domain, some even think I'm joking with em 😅
It's a sad reality.
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Mozilla needs to fix their poor image before trying email.
Frankly, after the last few years I don't trust them with a browser, let alone email.
Not happening. I already pay for an email service that has been privacy centric from the start, and has none of the bad news Mozilla does.
Mozilla has flat out lied to us about changes in Firefox with "No, you just misunderstood what we're doing" . Why should anyone trust them with email?
Pound sand Mozilla.
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Despite the headline, this is being done by Thunderbird, not Mozilla
Thunderbird is completely independent of the Mozilla Corporation, the makers of Firefox. But the Mozilla Coperation[sic] supports Thunderbird by hosting many of the Thunderbird infrastructure and resources.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-faq#w_who-makes-thunderbird
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Yea sounds like too closely related imo. Probably best to keep away.
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I like Firefox
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Anything not selfhosted and/or decentralized, including VPNs, is, by design, not 100% privacy-first.
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The service being decentralized doesn't really do anything about privacy, I'd even imagine it being harder to implement privacy controls on decentralized services.
Also the potential privacy "gains" from VPN rely on the fact that there's very large number of users using that service, making it harder to connect the dots. This basically means that self-hosting it for privacy is a bad idea, though it always depends on your threat model.
Lemmy is decentralized, FOSS and can be self-hosted, but it's absolutely not even near "privacy-first" design besides allowing pseudonymous sign-up.
Now thundermail promises some level of privacy, but we're yet to see much. Are the mailbox databases encrypted with customer owned keys, and mailflow logs not collected? That'd be my first question to determine if they're truly privacy-first.
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Thundermail -- not to be confused with Mozilla's decades-old Thunderbird email client -- will be an email service similar to Gmail that can be used within Thunderbird and on the web. With Thundermail, you can use either a Thundermail email address or a custom domain. Also, this new 100% open-source email service will never use your email to train AI, flood your inbox with ads, or collect and sell your data. (So maybe it's not that similar to Gmail.) That's a big win for those who are concerned about privacy.
Huh interesting, Mozilla and Proton are having more and more overlap. More choice is a good thing?
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Okay so its not like Gmail, but is free
So how it paid for?
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at the beginning, we plan to offer these services for free to consistent community contributors. Other users will have to pay for access.
Where does it say it's free?
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I am sick of tech press regurgitating press releases
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Proton?
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No, Thunderbird doesn't support the Trump administration
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They're a swedish company. I don't think this would have any impact. Besides, I don't think it's a good reason to dump on then just because of that.
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You just convinced me to get proton
Edit: This was a misunderstanding. I assumed they were saying that proton does not support the Trump administration and therefore I was going to use them as my new mail server, but now that I know that they kind of do, fuck proton, they won't get a penny from me.
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I KNOW privacy is important. But switching something you already use out needs to be exciting.
To be honest, switching for privacy feels like a chore.
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Exciting?
Why the heck does anyone need adrenaline and dopamine hits for something like email?
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