Nicolás Alvarez - 06.03.20, 16:07:09 CET: > > On 6 Mar 2020, at 11:26, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Martin Flöser - 06.03.20, 13:14:36 CET: > >> Am 2020-03-06 08:20, schrieb Nicolás Alvarez: > >>> Apple can give its million appstore apps access to Google calendar > >>> data, and Mozilla can let addons access email data, but we can't? > >>> What do they do differently? > >> > >> The only thing they do differently is that they have a permission > >> system in place. Doesn't apply for Thunderbird of course which > >> means > >> we should look at their privacy policy. Though we should never ask > >> Google "Why is Thunderbird allowed?" as we don't want that > >> Thunderbird gets access revoked. > > > > I ask a different question: > > > > Why – at all – rely on a provider who dictates on who gets access to > > it and who does not? Why – at all – rely on a provider who by doing > > so creates a walled garden? > > That's something you should go ask the thousands of users complaining > that they can't connect to GMail using KMail. They're the ones > relying on the provider. Go to the bug report and tell them the > solution to their KMail errors is to stop using Google services. That > should go well :)
See? -- Martin
