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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday February 28 2017, @07:47PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @07:47PM (#472992) Journal

    Broadcast television comes to mind as the most well-known example - the customers are the advertisers paying for access to you, the watcher.

    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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