Is Thunderbird Mail safe to use privacywise?

[ryannathans@aussie.zone]

Without advertising money and alternate revenue streams there would be no Mozilla

[Guest]

Thanks, that was my question. I use betterbird and wasn’t sure if this had anything to do with it.

[Guest]

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

[foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml]

It's not really not trusting Mozilla but more what they do to their products, telemetry and else

The same source with patches if you prefer that

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

You think they only renamed it?

[Guest]

I mean if the core is from them and you can't confidently say that the fork creator has reviewed and continues to review every piece of the code before they merge, you're still trusting Mozilla.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

We are not banned from doing that. If Mozilla was really hiding something it would not be libre software.

[elohim_samael@lemmy.world]

What else is there to use on my Samsung galaxy s23 ultra?

[nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Mozilla's telemetry change in Thunderbird Android makes me say "find a different client."

Generally, you should pick and choose your battles. Mozilla on the whole isn't a company whose software I trust anymore.

[leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

FairEmail has a good reputation.

[sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk]

Awesome. I'll take a look, thanks

[tursy@lemmy.world]

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?

[doodledup@lemmy.world]

This is normal usage stats. Every app has that. You can opt out and you get asked when launching the app the first time. This isn't that bad.

[nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Stop gaslighting me.

[yourfanatic@sh.itjust.works]

This section of their website says no telemetry reports are submitted:
https://www.betterbird.eu/legal/index.html?ref=news.itsfoss.com

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This!! FairEmail is amazing!

[yourfanatic@sh.itjust.works]

I keep having to log in on Evolution. If I knew what I was doing I would stay on it but for now I'm on Betterbird.

FairEmail is a good switch for Android.

[Guest]

MZLA makes money off of user donations, you can see the public stats
https://stats.thunderbird.net/#financials

[easily3667@lemmus.org]

Did you even read what you linked?

[jjlinux@lemmy.ml]

What is the point of using anything Mozilla if it's just going to do the same shit as the services we keep trying to avoid, only worse?

Mozilla has fallen, it is no longer focused on privacy. I get that companies need money to operate, but there are alternatives to just poking holes to be profitable (while calling yourself "not-for-profit").

Everything under the Mozilla umbrella is questionable, at best.