More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy

Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by sandworm101 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:21PM (#24423320)

If you are focused on privacy, you probably aren't using a client app. Browsers are the way to go, particularly on mobile devices. They allow you to more easily prevent data being stored on the device. The simple presence of an app evidences that you have an account with that service whereas a browser, absent bookmarks, reveals nothing. I don't hesitate to unlock my phone for airport checks. They aren't going to find anything, nor be able to say I have an account anywhere.

(A great thing about HN is that you don't need to have an account in order to read articles. So I can bookmark it on my phone without worry.)

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by stiray on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#24423472)

Since the browsers are a spyware on their own, especially chrome, this is not really true. And fingerprinting, cdns, etc. doesnt really provide you privacy. And local storage, history, cookies, syncing bookmarks to google etc. doesnt help either. We could argue about ssh / rdp access but browser is surely not a way to go.

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by sandworm101 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:37PM (#24423535)

But if you use an open browser you have at least a hope of addressing those issues. The app is a black box you just have to trust.

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by stiray on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#24424068)

Not really (I am quite proficient at reversing, but this is a special case ;) ).

Browser is a huge, unreviewable (well not true but there is not just simple to reverse java code but also arm dissasembly to be done and that part can take forever), black box that you have to trust and as you dont use it for one single task (as for instance mail client - there is exactly one ip address where it needs to connect to in my case - to my mail server - and my mail client is allowed to connect exactly there and nowhere else) you cant "jail" (pun, not as bsd jail) it. And I dont use any google spyware on my android phone, like GMS.

This might be of help to you, I have reviewed the code and if you pay a donation directly, it wont do anything fishy (and I am building my own version and diffing every version with my baseline - for 2.266 I can guarantee it is safe): https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

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Re:More people are searching for an inbox that protects thei... by dividedbyzero on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:37PM (#24423530)

It's possible to value (incremental gains in) privacy without taking it to such extremes. I definitely wouldn't want to go to such lengths, and I'm probably somewhat more privacy-conscious than many.

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