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wow, I didn't know. searched a bit and yeah, you're right. their excuse is "it doesn't add trust, because users have no way of verifying what code runs on our servers". bullshit.
but does it matter for email services backed to be foss in practice? the main downside I can see is it makes self hosting impossible, but other than that does it matter?
ok, so my technical knowledge is limited, so correct if I'm wrong. I know that the content of emails is end to end encrypted (regardless of what runs on their backends), but emails have a header that can not be encrypted. so from what I understand, in practice it doesn't matter that their backend is proprietary? because the header is exposed anyway and they can't do anything about it? basically it's the same problem with matrix, metadata can't stay private, right?
still sucks that they're not FOSS.
I know, I still have to keep using whatsapp because of my college T_T