from wslyvh@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 30 Sep 18:11
https://lemmy.ml/post/53408086
I shared Paperweight earlier here as it was being actively developed and still in beta. After almost 7 months, I’m excited to finally release Paperweight V1 as ready 🗿
Paperweight uses your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data.
Your email history contains traces of most of your online life. Accounts you created, companies you bought from, mailing lists you joined, services you forgot about, breaches, and personal information accumulated over the years.
Paperweight helps to map your footprint, take back control and delete your data. All locally on your computer.
V1 now includes:
- discover accounts, companies and services connected to your email
- find mailing lists and subscriptions
- show known breaches affecting services you use
- find personal information across your email history
- bulk unsubscribe and clean up old email
- create privacy and data deletion requests
- manage multiple email accounts
- connect to AI agents through MCP
It supports Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, custom IMAP and Proton Mail via Bridge.
The important part for me from the beginning was privacy. All your data stays on your computer. There is no Paperweight backend or external services processing your inbox.
It’s also fully open source under MIT.
The free version now includes full-history scanning and discovery, so you can map and inspect your entire footprint. A Pro license makes it actionable. It gives you ease of use, compiled binaries and support and helps support (OSS) development.
Website: paperweight.email
Source: github.com/wslyvh/paperweight
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This requires quite the leap of faith.
Not if you review and approve the code from git
Good point. I don’t know typescript, but I could propably still understand most of it if I went through the whole repository…
Or if it works offline on an inbox dump, like pst files. It looks like it’s accessing the obvious using IMAP right?
It running locally and having source code available are already great attributes.
I’m usually unhappy with the “just audit the code for yourself” argument, not just because doing that is limited to (experienced) programmers, but often because of the sheer size and (un)readability of the code. I didn’t have a deep dive to give a proper review, just looked at a few files and the code is at least well written and readable, so “just audit this code” isn’t completely out off question.
Thank you for sharing!
[I’m not saying that the expectation of every piece of software needs to be that every one can audit the code, I don’t want to pressure you into thinking that’s what users demand, OP. Especially of the alternative is often to trust closed source options from shady companies]
I see you are using both Cursor and Claude. Two of the six contributors are chatbots.
And you want people to pay you for the privilege of letting this vibecoded garbage scan their inboxes.
I think I will pass.
Like most projects, I use AI for most of my work these days. It’s a tool, which helps me plan, research and code new ideas/features. It makes a lot of my work easier. I share the concerns about yolo/vibe-coded slop, but it’s who wields the hammer that matters. I’ve been a software engineer for 20+ years and you can check from my Github history that I’ve been doing this way before any AI hype. The idea and execution is 100% me. I’m building something I want, use, and care about myself.
I know I won’t change your mind here, and that’s fine. Don’t use it. But you might want to reconsider calling everything that uses AI garbage. By that standard you won’t be able to use any tech at all anymore. Chill out, touch grass and enjoy your day!
These are good points, and if AI develops something that aids privacy, it’s a net good over time.
I go the other way: my mails live on the filesystem.
there’s a mass hysteria about ai code in this community and i think you’ve encountered it.
Getting used to it. Some thoughts here lemmy.ml/post/53408086/28100807
Is this even legal to not identify yourself while selling a product?