It’s incredibly full-featured and was regularly updated. Google has been violating EU regulation 2019/1150 on multiple occasions now by not being transparent about what exactly the problem is, but what can I do? Complain via the EU, wait five years for action while the app is being removed from the Play store?įairEmail obviously isn’t as popular as the Gmail application or Outlook, but it does have more than 500.000 installs on Google Play (it’s als available on F-Droid), and if you care about open source and privacy, there’s very few other places to go for email on Android (whether Google-less or not). This feature has been removed from the Play store version now. My guess is this is because of the usage of favicons, which will use the domain name of email addresses to fetch info. There will be no further development and no more support.Īccording to Google FairEmail is spyware because it uploads the contact list. Marcel Bokhorst has announced that after yet another brick wall interaction with Google, he is ending development of his popular (in the right circles) open source email client FairEmail.Īll my projects have been terminated after Google falsely flagged FairEmail as spyware without a reasonable opportunity to appeal. And another great application falls victim to Google’s absolute disdain for Android developers.
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