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Re:Fastmail – 20 Years Old by oil25 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:52PM (#21600633)
Sincere question - why is JavaScript required to sign up for Fastmail? Is it for browser fingerprinting? If so, what data is collected, how is it used and how long is it retained? No specific mention of it in the privacy policy. If I sign up in a virtual machine, can I later use Fastmail without running scripts?
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Re:Fastmail – 20 Years Old by brongondwana on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:18PM (#21601880)
You can use IMAP to access Fastmail without running Javascript (or I guess your own JMAP client if you wanted to write one - there isn't one that doesn't use Javascript yet) - but no, you can't use our interface without running Javascript - the client is written entirely in Javascript.
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Re:Fastmail – 20 Years Old by oil25 on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:41PM (#21608559)
That's too bad, looks like I'll have to stick with GSuite Gmail to have browser-based, non-Javascript access to my email.
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