What's the use-case for Firefox containers? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Or what do you use them for? Isn't it now quite easy for websites to track outside of just cookies?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Outlook does not work with Thunderbird or any other app besides the official Outlook one, which doesn’t exist for Linux. Even if it did I wouldn’t want to install it. So I am forced to use web mail.

That is not generally true across the board, but it may be true for your university because they have disallowed it.

Outlook, or rather Exchange Server and Office 365, does work with standard email clients like Thunderbird via the IMAP protocol, but it can be disallowed by the admins.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it used to work with the account from the first university, and has probably been disallowed somewhere in the settings as a "safety feature".

I'm just thankful IT seems to be as fed up with Microsoft as I am, so hopefully some day they'll make the change to something else.

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