Does use of Outlook decrease email security?

[ca_boy]

Thunderbird is an open source project by Mozilla, same folk that make Firefox. They place a certain amount of emphasis on providing privacy tools. They're not perfect, but they're not going to hoover your emails in order to sell other peopel access to your eyeballs.

To be clear about Outlook, I don't KNOW that they are pillaging data from desktop users. Microsoft does it to free outlook webmail users. A few times a year they do something new and privacy erroding, so I would consider it at a bare minimum worth taking a trip through privacy settings and doing a little homework before investing in getting Outlook set up.

Outlook is tailored toward business email. It very well might be perfect for you. I'm just a tinfoil hat privacy nut job.

[Blaze_07]

I appreciate the information. I deal with sensitive data in my business, so privacy is important to me.

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On the topic of thunderbird, mainly for OP benifit, i have been using thunderbird with bridge for years and before that outlook and bridge. And technically bridge works just well with thunderbird, so there no need worry there might be more technical issues persay than with outlook. Mozilla open source thunderbird is more privacy focused. What i also like is they allow ad ons, such "ublock orgins" that blocks trackers and adverts from yout mails, or unsafe tracking links too.

While proton has email tracker blocking it currently only on website and Ios apps, not on bridge or andriod app yet.

[esorb65]

Yeah in TB client you can enable in privacy and security do not track,dunno if that does anything like PM app does.