For transparency sake, I’m the new maintainer of this website. Just wanted to share it here. I was thinking of creating a community for it, but I don’t know if it is worth it.

I hope someone find it useful. If you want to contribute, collaborate or just share your opinion, you’re more than welcome! The repository for the website is here https://codeberg.org/ThePrivacyRaccoon/website

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    1 year ago

    It would easy for a technical individual, maybe, but not to the layman, which is the person that privacytoolsio was designed for. I appreciate the link, by the way.

    A small suggestion: if you’re going to make a statement, such as “Thunderbird which is spyware and bloated”, you should add sources that helped you come to this conclusion. Making a statement without citing your sources, isn’t super helpful, as we don’t know you and whether you’re actually knowledgeable or more like those “covid shots have nanobot tracers” people. Regardless, super nice repo! It seems like a labor of love, and I really appreciate you sharing it. I look forward to how it develops.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you! I do research for myself so why don’t share it with others.

      And you’re completely right, sources are needed. I’ll try to add them tomorrow to the website, for now, I’ll leave some of them here, just in case anyone is interested:

      From Thunderbirds Privacy Policy, the most interesting bit is that they share your IP with Amazon:

      Thunderbird uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host its servers and as a content delivery network. Your device’s IP address is collected as part of AWS’s server logs.

      source: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/thunderbird/

      Thunderbird has had various security flaws in the past, most notably efail. A table noting the email clients affected by this vulnerability:

      efail

      source: https://efail.de

      I’m sure there’s more, this is just what I found with some fast searches.