And it stores the data where

locally

The message viewing component is, of course. Emails are html. The application itself is not a web app.

Outlook (new) is not even a “mail client” at all. It’s an Edge “webview” web app. Adding an account to this “app” actually allows outlook.com the website to sync your entire mailbox, read its contents, and “share” all of that data with their (last checked, could have changed since) 798 “data partners”.

Install Thunderbird.

Before someone says “it’s not pretty enough, I don’t like it”, if the price for privacy is a shiny theme, I’ve got nothing dumb enough to say to you. You’re beyond helping and you’re not worth my time.

Edit ^ that last bit wasn’t about you, person I responded to, just realized it sounded like it was.

Oh, I thought you had already.

Kinda neat, right? What do you think of it so far?

Really enjoying Zen browser this week, may be my new favorite. The tab handling is VERY weird at first though.

Know how to tell someone is a Vegan?

They’ll tell you. Immediately, and never, ever shut up about it. Ever.

Chrome is a stupid name too. Edge is a stupid name.

What, because of the stupid name?

If you’re not a fan of Firefox right now, with the few odd decisions they’ve been making, try Floorp or Zen. They’re quite good forks of Firefox and don’t seem to have any of the recent Firefox oddness in them.

Or a handful of other, open source applications

You can make any dumb American do anything you want if you lead with a threat.

The very instant they are threatened, any tiny amount of critical thought they ever had instantly goes out the proverbial window.