Yes, fully open source. If you don't trust Mozilla, use a fork like Betterbird.
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?
This section of their website says no telemetry reports are submitted:
https://www.betterbird.eu/legal/index.html?ref=news.itsfoss.com
It does also say that some data may be submitted to Mozilla.
If you don't trust the source, how is a fork built from the same source going to help?
You think they only renamed it?
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.
We are not banned from doing that. If Mozilla wants to abuse us they would not make it libre software.
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
Thanks, that was my question. I use betterbird and wasn’t sure if this had anything to do with it.
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.
MZLA (Thunderbird) is funded by user donations, you can see the public stats https://stats.thunderbird.net/#financials
That’s odd
Yeah I'm just in the process of moving to Evolution from TBird on my desktops for this reason. Not sure what to use now Moz bought K9
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.
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.
What's a good alternative?
What else is there to use on my Samsung galaxy s23 ultra?
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