Like if proton was a VPS kind of thingy, even like some form of managed mail service through a docker container or something, where the user had control? That would be nice. But even then, who’s to say they aren’t monitoring the mail communication from the other end of that? You can’t really trust any of these mail providers, because they simply have too much control over the days.
Is there a solid alternative that isn’t as prohibitively expensive as Proton? It’s like, stupid expensive, even for basic email service with very small storage
I liked Windows Mail for its simplicity but between the ads and the tracking for Outlook I guess I’m moving to something else. Now I understand why my mail accounts give Oauth or temporary passwords to external clients, because otherwise M$ would have them.
This is why I don’t get excited when I hear some software that I already use and works fine gets an update. More often than not the update makes the software worse.
It used to not be the case, but as of the past decade or so, it seems like more and more software is getting lower quality or substantially bug ridden. Not just on windows either. It’s everything now.
Back in the day, each update used to fix bugs, add genuinely useful features, and were eagerly anticipated. Now, I get to do lovely things like RMA a bricked steam deck on stable channel or listen to New Teams’ ringer doubling, once before a call is picked up, and ringing again after the phone is answered. I wish I was joking for either of these.
For a few years, I had hope that Microsoft would become a respectable, user-oriented, even FOSS-friendly company, but they finally seem to have settled on AI enshitification as their main business model.
It’s already happened — 90% of games will work flawlessly now on both Windows and Linux. It’s just that the remaining 10% are different on each platform, for various reasons. Pick your poison. Usually it’s those 10% that will dictate the decision for you — but the OS itself has stopped making a difference for gaming years ago.
To be fair, Microsoft is a big company with various divisions. Parts of Microsoft are doing really great work in the FOSS area I would say, but really only if you’re a developer. As a general user… they do kind of suck yet.
I’m not sure what you are smoking but you’re high as balls dude. If there is any company that has as it’s motto “fuck and destroy open source” and as slogan “fuck everything for money”, then it’s Microsoft.
Microsoft paid SCO to make false claims against Linux in an attempt to destroy Linux and extort large companies away from Linux. The destroy part failed, but they got multiple large companies to steer away from Linux. Normal people would go to jail for that, Microsoft execs not so much.
Totally agree with that. MS is an evil fuck company hellbent on destroying Linux from the inside. But Linux is not a container or box or thing one can just destroy. It’s been fun watching them support Linux to try to infiltrate something. They haven’t realized that there’s nothing to infiltrate.
They’re latest strategy is to be FOSS… Ohh look at us! We can run Ubuntu from Windows now! We give money to Foss for development. Let’s give foss GitHub so they can store all their software safely with us!..blah blah bam! Let’s make this free software not free anymore…let’s fire these key Foss people…let’s make GitHub hard to access. Microsoft is a sneaky bastard for sure.
I hope you changed your email account passwords after. What many people don’t realise is that when you fill out the “configure your email account” form, the details aren’t kept local to your PC. You are giving Microsoft the login details to your email account. This is a major departure from how Outlook and Windows Mail used to work.
So you’ve uninstalled the app, but how can you ensure they aren’t still polling your emails?
I mean, if it’s an Outlook email and not from another provider using Outlook as a frontend, it’s part of Microsoft’s ecosystem anyways. Unless your whole inbox is encrypted (and it’s probably not if it’s not being advertised as such lol), it’s on Microsoft’s servers and they have control over it anyways.
That said, definitely change the password if you just used Outlook as your email client at some point!
Well that’s the thing. The new Outlook app is now the default email program on Windows. So you’ll have people setting up their Fastmail, Gmail, GMX and countless other mailboxes on it, just like they always have.
Except this time your password is being given to Microsoft, not just the email app on your computer.
That makes sense. I always just used my email from the browser unless there’s something specific I need from an email client or the setup is employer-provided/mandated, but I guess a lot of people just go with whatever is put in front of their face first.
I got a popup saying “wanna try the new Outlook app”? So I did and the fucking thing immediately inserted ads that resembled email into my inbox. If this is the future I’ll install Thunderbird.
Email is outdated. I hate that it’s required for anything, no one uses it for anything other than a high speed fax machine for boring business communique
You mean, other than being the most widespread method of account identification on the internet?
You need to have a method of uniquely identifying (and verifying) accounts and the other widespread method (phone numbers) is extremely privacy invasive because it’s much harde or practically impossible to change phone number for most people.
I was joking, but I’m curious what product you think could replace email? It’s popular because it’s instant (as opposed to phone, fax, email), and most importantly because it’s decentralised. There is no one company in control, anyone can run a server on any software so long as it speaks the open standards.
I’m sure there is something that could replace it, but what’s your suggestion?
Email have very much not been replaced. Messengers fit a specific niche. I personally send dozens of emails a day, and receive even more. These aren’t chat messages, but more elaborate emails that chat messages just don’t suit.
I feel the same about SMS auth. Considering many services block voip and Google Voice, it’s impossible to use the broad majority of web services without a cellphone.
As someone with an iCloud account, every time I try to use Outlook it randomly deletes emails from my iCloud account. I’ve posted this multiple times on Microsoft support site with others confirming and since it’s been more than year with no acknowledgment or fix I am convinced it’s a feature not a bug. YMMV.
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