Re:Leaking URLs to the Clown
by vilhelm_s on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:02PM
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She didn't think there would be anyone in the middle! She expected the app to access the URL, and it did, but she didn't expect it to also send a copy to its creators. Like, what if you discovered that each time you send an email, Thunderbird also sends the email address you were writing to to a server owned by Mozilla?
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Re:Leaking URLs to the Clown
by magicalhippo on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:14PM
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> Like, what if you discovered that each time you send an email, Thunderbird also sends the email address you were writing to to a server owned by Mozilla?
Then I wouldn't be surprised.
I haven't read Thunderbirds privacy policy in detail, so for all I know there's a clause about collecting email addresses in there. Could even be for a good reason, spam filtering for example.
And as mentioned I take that into account when writing emails. I do indeed avoid writing certain stuff and avoid sending certain mails due to privacy. For the rest I see it as an acceptable risk/reward tradeoff.
I'm not a tinfoil hat kinda guy, but the innocence is gone when it comes to modern software.