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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: 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~