Blaze to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 10 months agoProton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection servicewww.ghacks.netexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1283arrow-down1external-linkProton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection servicewww.ghacks.netBlaze to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square29fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90·10 months agoIt also sends your IMAP credentials to their servers and receives the mail there, it’s not done locally like the older versions.
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·10 months agoThe twisted reasoning is probably so that the users can access the emails anywhere with their live account (and so that MS can scrape those mails for all sorts of creepy shit)
minus-squareMangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·10 months agoJust to do it, IMAP already covers using multiple devices on an email account.
minus-squareSquare@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months ago„Better user experience“ they said.
minus-squaregarrett@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoThis is the worst part to me. All this just to “cloud sync” or something silly.
minus-squarepetrescatraian@libranet.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago@MangoPenguin yet their free tier for their cloud services is still lacking… @Blaze
It also sends your IMAP credentials to their servers and receives the mail there, it’s not done locally like the older versions.
Fuuuuuck that~
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The twisted reasoning is probably so that the users can access the emails anywhere with their live account (and so that MS can scrape those mails for all sorts of creepy shit)
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Just to do it, IMAP already covers using multiple devices on an email account.
„Better user experience“ they said.
This is the worst part to me. All this just to “cloud sync” or something silly.
@MangoPenguin yet their free tier for their cloud services is still lacking…
@Blaze