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https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/
Mozilla had previously made Pocket a mandatory part of Firefox and that really annoyed a lot of people because Pocket's business model was to spy on users for profit. This acquisition gives me hope that the spying will be eliminated, making Pocket - which is a genuinely useful tool - safe for all to use.
Pocket will join Mozilla's product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content. (Here's a link to their blog post on the acquisition). Pocket's core team and technology will also accelerate Mozilla's broader Context Graph initiative.
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:41PM (2 children)
How can you read/view something in the cloud while offline? I find it easier to "Ctrl+s" and save the page. Then I can put it on a thumb drive and view it on any of my computers. I don't care to use my phone to read web pages, I like to save the battery for doing stuff like communicating.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:04PM
For static pages, it's often better to print to pdf. For video pages, it's a bit more complicated.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:42AM
It's intended for use with hand-held mobile devices (e.g. e-readers, phones, tablets) that can hop online to synchronize the user's account, which is why the Pocket servers only store the article's text & in-line pics and not the the javascript, menus, ads, or other crap taking up the rest of the page.
To achieve the same, the user would have to save all pages the article appears on, manually strip all of the extraneous crap, possibly convert to whatever file format their device can read, then connect their device to the computer & manually sideload it. That takes quite a bit more time and knowledge than just clicking a bookmarklet.