[REQUEST] Standards Compliant Calendar Sync

[Drew]

Only supporting Google Calendar stands in stark contrast to your own excellent privacy practices, and negates many of its benefits. I won't open another vector for Google to mine my entire life for their data brokerage machine. This is the first time I've logged into my google account in quite some time and I hope it's the last for another very long while. I spent the last decade working as a web developer and I know how the sausage is made: it's not pretty.

My paid email provider offers a privacy-respecting standards-compliant CalDAV/iCalendar calendar which works with all common calendaring apps: this isn't exactly obscure technology, here. It's a mature, open standard with client libraries available in nearly any software language and supported by every service provider I've encountered, including Google. The underlying data structure should function exactly the same way Google Calendar's data does in your app. While I could sync my existing calendars through Google calendar-- e.g. a two-way sync between my personal calendar and a Google calendar-- that entirely negates the benefit avoiding google calendar.

Please consider affording your users your excellent privacy practices throughout your user-facing ecosystem rather than forcing us to submit to surveillance capitalism for important functionality.

Thanks for all of the work you do, and for making an excellent product.