Inbox's spiritual successor Shortwave has finally come to Android - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    I would really suggest people to read their privacy policy - it is horrible. Good app but makes no sense for the exchange of privacy it demands.

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      1 year ago

      Facebook, Whatsapp, X and Instagram are the top apps - do you think people really care about privacy policy? Not confusing an email client with social media apps but the general mass doesn’t care about privacy policy yet.

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        1 year ago

        Here on Lemmy there’s slightly more privacy-sensitive demographic than your average social media. It was true even back on Reddit and it seems even more true here.

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        1 year ago

        Good for the people who use them. I don’t.

        I’ll still speak out against any app with such a heinous privacy policy.

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    1 year ago

    Why did Google kill inbox? Was it somehow not profitable? Couldn’t cram enough ads into it?

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    I tried it then uninstalled when I realized it was just a wrapper.

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      Yeah, that would be great. I haven’t found anything like it sadly.

      There’s a KDE itinerary plugin for Thunderbird but that’s about it, all the rest of the features are missing.

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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    1 year ago

    A bit too late for that now. Once they killed Inbox I just migrated everything to ProtonMail. Don’t even use my Gmail address anymore.

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    1 year ago

    Installed it. Initially thought that it had potential. Then I found that unless you pay 9$ a month, your search results only display messages from the last 90 days. Absolute deal breaker.

  • Anti-Antidote@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been using Shortwave since early 2022, and it’s honestly been an amazing alternative to the Gmail client

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    1 year ago

    I ended up switching most of my email usage to Hey and that’s been okay enough. I really miss inbox though.

    • Polar@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      If you’re going to pay, you might as well pay for something like ProtonMail and get an actual product.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised it wasn’t on Android already. Been using it for a year or so now, and I love it.

    • Fred@lemdro.idOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m guessing you are referencing the article mention “Inbox”. Because I promise you, I was a huge fan and was bummed when they killed it.

  • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am settled with Spark, I need my email app to be multi platform and inbox zero.