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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service (www.forbes.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thundermail… yeah yeah. :gently pushes my aol.com account under the sofa:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sounded great until the "assist" ai feature. I friggin hate Gemini in gmail so any other kind of ai is an automatic nogo for me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'd consider it. If they host things outside of the US/start moving operations overseas, it'd be a lot more interesting. I sub to Proton for email, VPN, and drive support. Still hoping someday for proper Linux drive support so Mozilla/Thunderbird can target that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

welp I signed up for the waitlist.

I'll use it for a disposable email at first, and if it endures and does well I'll move my main shit off to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm listening...

But how is a small non-profit going to afford a free email service? Ads in every email?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Based on what I've seen in their forums it will be a paid service. I think it will be free at first for beta testers but I assume they are targeting people who currently use services like Proton.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info.

But I think they'll still need an ad driven free version to gain acceptance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

nah. ad free paid emails are already a thing

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

Lol sure destroy all the trust with your users THEN launch an email service. Hard pass fro me.

I guarantee you they're already planning to train an LLM on everybody's emails, or at least sell them to AI companies doing training.

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