I'd consider it. If they host things outside of the US/start moving operations overseas, it'd be a lot more interesting. I sub to Proton for email, VPN, and drive support. Still hoping someday for proper Linux drive support so Mozilla/Thunderbird can target that
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So the Mozilla Foundation is gonna waste google money on email infrastructure? Hmmm... 'k... it's not like their browser could use some love...
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Lol sure destroy all the trust with your users THEN launch an email service. Hard pass fro me.
I guarantee you they're already planning to train an LLM on everybody's emails, or at least sell them to AI companies doing training.
Sounded great until the "assist" ai feature. I friggin hate Gemini in gmail so any other kind of ai is an automatic nogo for me
I looked at this but it asked me to download it. Can I access it through a browser like I can Google?
Yet thunderbird still can't single click open an email in a new window. If I recall correctly the request has been filed in 2014 or smt 💀
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