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

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This doesn’t bode well at all: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/about/

Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.

A free mail client from a for-profit company? What’s the revenue model? Sounds like I must be the product somehow.

The Thunderbird for-profit entity, MZLA Technologies Corporation, is distinct from the Firefox for-profit entity, Mozilla Corporation, and both are wholly owned by the non-profit entity, Mozilla Foundation.

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 8 months ago

That’s odd

[-] oopsallnaps 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

MZLA (Thunderbird) is funded by user donations, you can see the public stats https://stats.thunderbird.net/#financials

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