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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, @04:46PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:46PM (#472850)

    If Pocket stores full pages, isn't that the same as passing the link to the Internet Archive (archive.org) so they snag a copy of the current content?

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Pino P on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:55PM (1 child)

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:55PM (#472858) Journal

    I've found Wayback Machine by Internet Archive to be a lot less useful than it used to be now that so many expired, parked domains end up with a restrictive policy in /robots.txt. Unlike manual archiving services, Wayback Machine makes pages inaccessible based on the current contents of an origin's /robots.txt.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:03PM (#472867)

      I agree this is a huge problem and this behavior makes little sense and is prone to abuse.