Whoa, 9 upvotes instantly, then a block of 11 downvotes, then another block of 8 downvotes, and then a challenger reply, very interesting! Refute this guy he says! It’s hard when someone challenges long held viewpoints, I get that. I live and breath security for decades now, there is nothing to refute, I left those parts out.

I’m choosing to repond here because this is a typical Big-Tech marketing speak viewpoint, that somehow Mozilla is to be trusted, that Mozilla isn’t Big Tech. Well, it obviously is Big Tech to the tune of almost a Billion, what! The way they hide that massive Mozilla Corp money behind a non-profit, sketchy!

Right there you should not trust them

Even though you can opt-out of the Telemetry, which can be useful if done correctly, the majority of the most valuable data about your digital life is already collected when you set it up. Opting out only disables further collection.

Mozilla is a significant part of increasing Google’s hegemony if you read the article, you have it backwards! The Internet Data search et al. valuation is vastly superior [value] to browser valuation or market share to which Firefox is only something like 7%.

Lastly going with Thunderbird because it’s the least bad is a terrible choice to have to make, isn’t it? Do I have that wrong? Even if you are on Windows, you can determine to not play the least-bad game of Big-Tech selling the least amount of details about your life and just run your email somewhere else, even in a VM.

I’m here for people power and not Mega-Corp power. I’m writing this at the keyboard right now willing to get flack and downvotes, for you. I gave you the viable option, Claws-Mail.

Some may say yeah, but BSD/Linux Claws-Mail is not a shiny UX experience and those shinies are worth sale of my digital identity/me. How Gollum of you!

Yeah, I said it Lemmy, I said it! Don’t sell yourself for free because it’s easier or “more intuitive” or “works better”!