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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by bryanlarsen on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:35AM (#31436074)
according to boole1854[1] the app was uploading contacts to be able to download favicons, without disclosing that it was uploading contacts.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434975

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Re:EFF and EU should respond to Google taking FairEmail off ... by g_p on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:51PM (#31437043)
Looking at the code, it wasn't uploading contacts - rather it retrieved the favicons by looking on the domain in question, when a user turned that feature on manually.

Some apps do upload user contacts - they take the whole list, and cart it off to their own server. The app doesn't seem to be sending anything to its own server - it's fetching something the user asked it to fetch.

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