Over at ghacks, Martin Brinkmann writes:
Mozilla has added Pocket, a third-party "save for later" service, to Firefox Beta (and other development channels of the browser).
This is based on the proprietary former addon pocket, which is now no longer supported since it is being integrated.
It's only the beta channel, but this has all the hallmarks of a half-baked revenue stream for Mozilla that ultimately sells out user privacy - and what's worse, is opt-out, rather than opt-in.
Sponsored tiles on the new tab page, changing default search settings during updates, surrendering on DRM, and now this... Mozilla keeps finding ways to make it hard to stay a supporter. Here's hoping they hear some feedback on this decision before it gets out of beta!
What are the best available browser options for users wanting to protect their privacy as much as possible, as well as run a bloat-free browser? Pale Moon? Midori?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:43PM
Firefox already has synchronized bookmarks across devices. I can't see what this does that that doesn't.
Maybe it works. The old system usually didn't, mostly just created endless duplicates or wouldn't replicate at all. For such a simple task it sure had a rough launch. Of course that was a long time ago, maybe it actually works now. Although the roughness of that rollout might indicate that whatever the heck pocket does, it probably won't work for years anyway so don't worry.