2d ago

Is Thunderbird Mail safe to use privacywise?

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

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