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All of this convinced me to give up on moving all my accounts to their service and just use the iCloud service I already pay for. Trying to get away from GMail and Google’s privacy policies, but it felt like these moves indicated greater change coming to a service I was sincerely optimistic about prior.
Yeah, I actually quite liked their VPN and was thinking about upgrading, now its a no go lol.
Altho I wouldn't recommend you to give up on your privacy, maybe you can create a NAS or something, but don't give up on your rights!
I won't be using these features, but I'm not sure there's cause for concern. The implementation seems very sensible and legitimately privacy-centric. The LLM runs locally and is meant as an very basic email proofreader. The crypto wallet is a likely an extension of the password management tech they've already developed, with transaction features that some people care about.
I can see why some people want these features, and I'm glad there are new alternatives.
Coming from someone who hasn't gotten into the weeds with this company, my understanding was that they did email. I was considering migrating over to them in order to de-google completely.
This move, specifically, has caused me to reconsider and scrap those plans. Not every tech company needs to peddle ai and crypto bullshit.
... they do email, but they also do other things. They still do email better than the alternatives.
It's kind of like if Chipotle came out with hamburgers and you were like "well I want a burrito but I'll never get one of their burritos now, they're just like all the other fast food now."