They’re looking for a sustainable revenue stream because the Google subsidy is bound to dry up.
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
Just be Proton without the support for fascism. Easy.
isnt the proton ceo praising trump publicly?
Congratulated him on day 1, I don’t think said anything since
which means its ok for you. I cant follow
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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.
They are thinking of having the user choose the juridiction. So far their testing is hosted in the EU apparently.
Isn’t Mozilla a US company?
Somehow I don’t see them leaving the place where they do business
Article says revenue from this won’t fund firefox.
They make a significant cut of their money through their portfolio
Ah yes the move from software developer to service provider. Smells like en(shit)tification.
Lets hope they do this right unlike everyone else.
Smells like en(shit)tification.
What are the parenthesis here for? Without it would be “smells like entification”??
Smells like shit…
Smells like (en)shit(tification) looks kinda shit.
I’m cynical and already looking at forks
Good for you, but those forks too owe their existence (among other things) to the donations (and down the road subscriptions) to Thunderbird.
Swapped to waterfox a while ago. Copied the profile folder over and boom, done, no more mozilla corp in my browser.
That’s a Firefox fork, not a thunderbird fork.
Figured this was talking about ditching Mozilla altogether, as this news is about a web service, not a new anti-feature in Thunderbird.
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
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They are really not selling me with their recent antics
I agree. I would love to see a competitor to gmail/office365 that respects privacy
Mozilla: “what is this you speak of”
This is great news!
Would be great if they create a real competition to proton mail
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.
In the article it says they will have no ads and no data mining. The user will pay for the service.
I hope they’re going to keep the late 90s theme from Thunderbird. Maybe a dancing baby gif.
What do you consider 90’s?
I use Thunderbird and it is anything but 90’s
pls no.
Oh, bother.
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1998 called…
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Called what?
