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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[-] tursy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days 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?

[-] yourFanatic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025

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