> That is unfair and a mischaracterization of Mozilla. No, it's exactly how mozilla operates. They are nothing more than controlled opposition almost fully fun

> That is unfair and a mischaracterization of Mozilla. No, it's exactly how mozilla operates. They are nothing more than controlled opposition almost fully funded by google to the tune of nearly $1bbn and an adtech corp in their own right. > 1. Most people are not using a fully encrypted self-hosted email server. "Phoning home" is meaningless if everything is already hosted in the cloud, more like the cloud phoning the cloud. Some of us are. > But point taken, it is one MORE person with access to your data. Not just one more, one more giant database (and therefore giant target). My server provider isn't trawling through my server looking for datasets to sell. It's not worth their time for a couple of cents/dollars. But when you can mass-collect data from every user of software, prepackaged in a nice homogeneous gift wrap it is both easier to collect and worth more. > 2. Again, sync services are helpful for most people and can easily be disabled for power users. Email can be autoconfigured with nothing more than a username and password. Mozilla could trivially store k9-specific settings directly on the email server. Cheaper (more efficient use of funds), easier to maintain, No privacy leaks and no dependence on mozilla. But there lies the rub. > 3. Mozilla is doing as much for free software as anyone and should be supported in this expansion. No, they should stop doing everything that's not firefox and even that should be met with fierce pushback since they don't seem to care about a free and open internet until they are made to.