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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 Zz9zZ on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:13PM (2 children)

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:13PM (#473073)

    Disagree, but not enough to downmod. Access logs are a huge cry away from mining your files and other data that isn't logged through simple access.

    Never will I agree that only morons put secrets online, there are expectations of privacy people abide by, and if you feel comfortable living in a thought-crime society then... I dunno what to say, yuck? I don't think you are, you're just being pragmatic. But I say pragmatism is not enough, we must push back against this massive system which is steadily being subverted to work against the general public. Judging others for making mistakes online is a lame blame the victim mentality.

    We shouldn't be afraid of searching out information, but nowadays that is exactly what is going through everyone's mind. "If I look up this thing it'll get tagged on my profile and make me look suspicious" so now we all live in fear to varying degrees. Technology is complicated, and that knowledge is not magically passed down from generation to generation. There will always be "noobs" because there are constantly new people being born that have to learn.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:40PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:40PM (#473082)

    mining your files and other data that isn't logged through simple access

    Oh that misconception might be a slight source of our disagreement. I set it up on a chromebook and that was not a permission demanded nor from memory did the android app ask for anything that exciting.

    Its an online todo list of URLs and stripped down saved html files those URLs point to, thats all. Its not like running a virus scan to see whats hidden in your mp3 collection or something.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @02:32AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 01 2017, @02:32AM (#473184)

      I set it up on a chromebook

      Well, if you are using a chromebook then its pretty clear you don't give a rat's ass about your privacy.
      So I think it would be foolish to believe that you are even halfway cognizant of all the ways you are being snooped on.