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Is Thunderbird Mail safe to use privacywise? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have 2 concerns:

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

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[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes, fully open source. If you don't trust Mozilla, use a fork like Betterbird.

[–] tursy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour 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?

[–] ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You think they only renamed it?

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We are not banned from doing that. If Mozilla wants to abuse us they would not make it libre software.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

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