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Mozilla Acquires Pocket, Will Open Source Pocket Code

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 vux984 on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:46PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:46PM (#472849)

    Thanks i saw some speculation that their must be some sort of love-in with pocket; first they violated every shred of common sense to implement an extension connecting to a proprietary company right into the browser; and then months later... acquired the company. All for a bookmarking utility that caches complete articles... a function that is increasingly less relevant as time progresses due to the spread of internet access to planes etc -- the very 'problem' pocket was trying to solve.

    But nepotism... it all makes perfect sense now.

    What a waste.

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