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posted by on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-has-it-got-in-its-pockets? dept.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:14PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:14PM (#472830)

    A great option for those interested in saving video, images, text and other content, all in one place.

    -- https://getpocket.com/ [getpocket.com]

    Pocket (Read It Later, Inc) was founded in 2007 by Nate Weiner to help people save interesting articles, videos and more from the web for later enjoyment. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet or computer. It can be viewed while waiting in line, on the couch, during commutes or travel — even offline.

    -- https://getpocket.com/about [getpocket.com]

    Do not want!!! Every browser since Mosaic can bookmark!!!

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:41PM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:41PM (#472896)

    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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    When life isn't going right, go left.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:04PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:04PM (#473033)

      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

      by Magic Oddball (3847) on Wednesday March 01 2017, @05:42AM (#473220) Journal

      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.