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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: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:58PM (2 children)
>These companies are selling a service
Not to us they're not, unless you've found a way to actually *pay* for that service?
There are exceptions (such as the bulk of open source software), but generally speaking if you're not actually paying for something, then you're not the customer, you're the product. Broadcast television comes to mind as the most well-known example - the customers are the advertisers paying for access to you, the watcher.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday February 28 2017, @07:47PM
I actually pay for broadcast television (indeed, I would have to pay even if I hadn't a TV). Which unfortunately doesn't mean it's completely ad free.
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(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:48PM
Very true, but in this case Mozilla is a non-profit that says they respect privacy, so users are the customers. I bring up paid SAAS models because those do exist and they do datamine the crap out of their customers. Your files can be scanned, and even if they have privacy policies that still leaves the corruption option open. Sysadmin is offered $50k to copy all client data for some douche, the world is evidence that it does happen and way more often than I care for. The only defense is encrypt so they can't datamine on a whim.
~Tilting at windmills~