Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
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I think it's incredibly important that people know, with absolute certainty, whether or not the new Mozilla/Firefox privacy policy in any way applies to / covers such a service.
I'm not saying I know the answer- What I'm saying without a concrete, permanently applied answer it's not even considerable.
There is no email service that exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It's funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
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If only they could develop a federated short message system.
Messenger/WhatsApp/slack messaging style but federated like email
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There is no email service that exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It's funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
Firefox/Mozilla operated without any of the new additions for nearly the entire history of the internet until this year. If anything, "over"-reacting to the new policies was too weak a reaction. You do you and all, but I'll agree to very strongly disagree.
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Tf else would you you even use
"My ENTERPRISE runs on WhatsAppp/SquareTeams/Discord/Slack" etc etc....
Of course that works until that "enterpise" needs to send invoices, and get invoices.
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If only they could develop a federated short message system.
Messenger/WhatsApp/slack messaging style but federated like email
Email is federated, it's just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars...
Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.
Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.
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Yes, sort of. Thundermail addresses, apparently, or bring your own. From the linked article you're commenting on:
Users can send and receive email using new Thundermail accounts they sign up for. The service will also allow using your own custom domain (e.g. [email protected]).
You have always been able to use your own domain email with Thunderbird. The big news here is the fact that they are launching not only a web based mail service a la Thunderbird but also providing an email server for addresses of [yourchosenname]@thundermail.com. which is gonna be pretty great.
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Lol sure destroy all the trust with your users THEN launch an email service. Hard pass fro me.
I guarantee you they're already planning to train an LLM on everybody's emails, or at least sell them to AI companies doing training.
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There is no email service that exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It's funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
at exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
Being angry at the Mozilla foundation for those changes is understandable.
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You have always been able to use your own domain email with Thunderbird. The big news here is the fact that they are launching not only a web based mail service a la Thunderbird but also providing an email server for addresses of [yourchosenname]@thundermail.com. which is gonna be pretty great.
I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.
I.e point your MX records to them.
Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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Mine is E2EE.
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.
Why?
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at exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.
Being angry at the Mozilla foundation for those changes is understandable.
Switching to Brave because of it is plain stupid. -
It works I already tried. But I stopped short of jumping on board because its not the safest. No, what we need is some fedi style development. We need email on fedi.
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That fork is what the Syncthing devs recommend. Pretty sure it's fine.
Oh good to see!
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Mine is E2EE.
Unless everyone you communicate with have agreed to use the same standard as you, no, it is not.
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"[...] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”
That's a lot of words to say "we made an AI that totally won't suck up your data, trust me bro"
"nvidia's confidential compute" had me choke when reading it. Sure bro, sure.
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I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.
Google only checked out and cashed in after getting a monopoly. Mozilla let themselves fade into irrelevance.
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Nope, still requires double click
