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Is Skiff trustworthy?
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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I don't like that you have to use play store to install their apps. 'Oh, but I use Aurora store' you say. Doesn't matter, the email app (the only one I checked) uses the play billing api and firebase installations so on first run it phones home to the mothership.
Someone pointed that out on the other site, and the owner jumped in and said 'those are disabled'. Then someone else posted firewall logs.
Edit: I realized that what I wrote in now way answers you question, mea culpa. Tutanota wrote a comparison Here that does though. It seems relatively unbiased, judge for yourself.
Fwiw I use both Tutanota and Proton. They also have the advantage of being outside of Five Eyes countries.
Edit: word
Ooh yikes
Aurora store doesn't even work anymore... Btw you can pay using the web interface too? Do we need play billing API?
I just used Aurora store to download Skiff Mail before I posted this. Definitely worked a few hours ago.
Aurora works but the rate limiting on the anonymous accounts is getting tough. I need to switch accounts multiple times before I can even get one search in
I guess I got lucky, I hadn't used it in a long time and it worked right away after I unblocked the googly from my firewall.
I just wanted to check Skiff again to see if anything had changed. It was good though, Aurora said I had a few updates, and I thought ' cool, I can delete those things'. I use Kiss launcher, which I love, but not having everything in front of you I sometimes forget less used apps.
Both Tutanota and photon mail are proprietary
Edit: Apparently Tutanota us working on becoming librejs compliant