Help with KDE PIM and Google Privacy Policies needed

[Martin Steigerwald]

Nicolás Alvarez - 06.03.20, 16:07:09 CET:
> > On 6 Mar 2020, at 11:26, Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de>
> > 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