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Is it impossible to check Proton Mail with Thunderbird for free? (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/thunderbird@lemmy.world
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What I read online seemed to say that Proton Bridge is required, and is not free. That sucks, if so...

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[–] [S] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

... except in FOSS! 😍 You are absolutely not the product nor paying with Syncthing, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Unless/until it’s acquired like audacity or simplemobiletools (which tbf was forked into fossify without the ad garbage). Then there’s just the poor decisions of major projects like Firefox. Even Ubuntu like a decade ago had a brief period where it served amazon ads and integrated with facebook/twitter for user data sharing, though they quickly walked that back because users were furious

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sure, but the general principle is that it's easier to find goodness in FOSS than badness. Like you said with the forks, life, uh, finds a way; I use Firefox forks Waterfox and Floorp. I use Linux Mint, a cleaned Ubuntu derivative. How many for-profit equivalents are better? What is the percentage? Consider all FOSS offline games, for example. There is true heart in this stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I ageee that foss is the way to go generally, my point is more don’t blindly trust foss to be altruistic. A devs gotta eat and sometimes that (foolishly) becomes engagement with the ad machine monster (especially given donations are often overlooked)

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