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Use the german Betterbird client instead!

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[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Vivaldi browser has email and calendar built in.

It's not great, but it's European and 1 app for everything.

Fairmail on Android for my main email client.

For those complaining about Thunderbird's search... did you raise a ticket? That's the way to get things improved...

[โ€“] Reznik@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

...and it's build on chromium. Yes, technically chromium is open source. In reality Google is the main (afaik it's only noticable) contributor so it's a Google baby. And using something based on chromium strengthens Google's ability to force or deny web technics. If you don't want Google to control web development stop using browser build on top of chromium.

In reality you have 2 choices: Use firefox (or some fork) or buy a mac and use safari. Every other browser empowers Google.

[โ€“] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

3rd choice, use curl and just go full matrix mode on the HTML. "I don't even see the tags anymore, I just see tracking cookie, javascript bloat, the download URL I am looking for..."

[โ€“] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I want M2 back. If Vivaldi's Mail client is anything like Opera's M2, I'm all in...