: Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more
  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Uh oh. The reason gmail is profitable is because they see all your emails and sell your profile to others.

    I dont want Mozilla doing that.

    • Niquarl@lemmy.ml
      5·
      12 hours ago

      In the article it says they will have no ads and no data mining. The user will pay for the service.

  • madjo@feddit.nl
    562·
    1 day ago

    They’re looking for a sustainable revenue stream because the Google subsidy is bound to dry up.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
      383·
      1 day ago

      if they manage to make it an actual good product and also not host it in the US, they might even be able to pull it off

      • Niquarl@lemmy.ml
        2·
        12 hours ago

        They are thinking of having the user choose the juridiction. So far their testing is hosted in the EU apparently.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          22·
          1 day ago

          Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I’m going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.

          Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla’s own lawyers disputed many things but not that.

      • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        I’d need to be able to choose a non-US server too. And even then, all the major tech firms breached EU laws by later transferring data back to the US. But if I had to trust an American company Mozilla would be among the better choices.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    358·
    1 day ago

    Ah yes the move from software developer to service provider. Smells like en(shit)tification.

    Lets hope they do this right unlike everyone else.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      191·
      1 day ago

      Smells like en(shit)tification.

      What are the parenthesis here for? Without it would be “smells like entification”??

      • Vincent@feddit.nl
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Good for you, but those forks too owe their existence (among other things) to the donations (and down the road subscriptions) to Thunderbird.

      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 day ago

        Swapped to waterfox a while ago. Copied the profile folder over and boom, done, no more mozilla corp in my browser.

          • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            1 day ago

            Figured this was talking about ditching Mozilla altogether, as this news is about a web service, not a new anti-feature in Thunderbird.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    162·
    1 day ago

    when they said they would look for a way to monetize firefox i was worried, but this is actually great if they make a good service.

  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
    171·
    1 day ago

    Always felt like this needed to happen for long time now. I guess now better than never. Got to figure out a business model. Reselling Mullvad as Firefox VPN was a start. I feel like everything that Proton does, Firefox should be doing but with a Linux file manager application

  • fireshell@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    22 hours ago

    A big step forward for Mozilla on the “mail” side. Diversification of income. Advertising in the browser was not to everyone’s liking, but you have to make money somehow. On the private mail service with the transfer of large files in the form of cryptocontainer… They’ll make a normal one the clients for Android and iOS… Link to Mozilla Account… This is the right way, one of them. And see integration with various approaches to trusted AI (trusted exactly, without transferring user data to the cloud). That’s the right way, too. A very appropriate response to tectonic changes in the external environment.

  • twinnie@feddit.uk
    63·
    1 day ago

    I hope they’re going to keep the late 90s theme from Thunderbird. Maybe a dancing baby gif.