A few months ago I shared Paperweight here. An open-source desktop app that scans your inbox to map out your digital footprint.
Every account you create, every service you sign up for, every online purchase is connected to your email address. Most people have 100+ accounts they’ve forgotten about, creating security risks and privacy exposure.
Local-first. Your inbox is scanned on your own device, your data never leaves it, and there is no account or cloud component.
Since last time, a lot has changed:
- New pii analysis engine to check addresses, phones, IBANs, national IDs, cards, and more
- Improved multi-language lexicons for better classification
- Track GDPR data requests you send fromPaperweight
- Improved sync, receiver, hide-my-email aliases, and message tagging
- Fully verified builds for Apple, Windows and Gmail OAuth connections
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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You are a talented dev. But I feel you don’t fully grasp the protection that GPL gives to those who truly contribute. I am keen in trying this and I genuinely hope you are convinced to relicense this to GPLv3.
I probably don’t. I know copyleft vs permissive can be heated debates and I don’t have a very strong opinion. My decision and reasoning is mostly based/aligned with https://shazow.net/posts/permissive-vs-copyleft/
At the current stage, and as solo dev, I don’t believe that either licensing is realistically going to have any meaningful difference. There are plenty of cases where copyleft didn’t prevent capture. And permissive projects that thrived above corporate versions.
But I’m curious to learn and appreciate the feedback. Can you elaborate? What’s the main concern. What assurances, or protections do you hope to get from GPL? Is it about using the project, or contributing to the project?