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LibreWolf is to Firefox what BetterBird is to Thunderbird? (www.betterbird.eu)

submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Had never heard of this before today. Anyone tried it?

EDIT: "Being a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, the software collects some data about the user, less than the original Mozilla Thunderbird, as outlined in Thunderbird's privacy statement. No data is submitted to Betterbird, some data may be submitted to Mozilla. No telemetry and no crash reports are submitted, however, add-on updates and blocklists are downloaded from Mozilla sites. Betterbird offers a product Start Page which processes access data as described above."

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Are there the same problems with Thunderbird as with Firefox?

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 46 minutes ago

The Thunderbird team spent a good chunk of time a few days ago replying everywhere they were mentioned on Mastodon, insisting that the problems did not apply to them:

The Firefox Terms of Use do not apply to Thunderbird or any other products we develop (e.g. Appointment, K-9 Mail)

You can check out their replies here: https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird/with_replies. Lots of the same, or similar, verbiage across replies.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

There are no "problems" with Firefox. The problems are with Mozilla and how they operate Firefox, so they could easily start affecting Thunderbird too.