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and as a counterpoint: FDroid gave FairEmail a clean bill of health. FairEmail, if popular, would give users the unfortunate ability to sidestep an appendage o
by nimbius 4y ago
and as a counterpoint: FDroid gave FairEmail a clean bill of health.
FairEmail, if popular, would give users the unfortunate ability to sidestep an appendage of the lucrative ecosystem of googles surveillance capitalism by eschewing the default email client.
- VWWHFSfQ 4y ago> FDroid gave FairEmail a clean bill of health. This means nothing.
- alaricus 4y agoI trust FDroid more than I trush Google.
- Xylakant 4y agoWhy would google care about the email client people use. They may care about the email provider people use, because that‘s where all data passes through. But I‘m fairly certain that for all they care, you could have your mail printed or view them as an expressive modern dance piece.
- pwg 4y ago> Why would google care about the email client people use. Because the "client" is where advertising can be most easily inserted to monetize that user.
- Xylakant 4y agoBut they don’t. Or does the default mail client on Android come with built-in advertisement?
- pwg 4y agoPersonally I don't know, as I use K-9 Mail from F-Droid. But from the viewpoint of an advertising company, keeping the option open to insert ads, even if they may not be doing so at this time, is in their best interests.
- Avamander 4y agoFDroid clearly didn't detect how the app queries contacts from an external server. Neither does FDroid check if the app uses newer better APIs to conduct its activity.