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Re:FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags... by teawrecks on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:17PM (#31437398)
Agreed, 1) it's not sharing contacts, 2) it only pings those domains if you enable the optional feature. This is exactly how I'd want the app to behave, and I honestly can't think of a better way to handle it.

Maybe caching the favicons on a server hosted by the app creator so that no matter what domain the app looks up, it looks like it's contacting FairEmail.

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Re:FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags... by gommm on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:47PM (#31437836)
But in that case, the app creator would have a list of domains which I think is objectively worse from a privacy perspective...

I'm honestly a bit annoyed that OP is the top comment on HN when it exaggerates the impact of this feature.

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Re:FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags... by boole1854 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:09PM (#31438778)
OP here. You are right.
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