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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-its-pocketses dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:48PM

    by bart9h (767) on Wednesday May 20 2015, @07:48PM (#185677)

    Does Vimperator works in iceweasel?

    If so, I'm sold.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @08:44PM (#185701)

    I don' t use Vimperator, but I use a good number of extensions in Iceweasel and they all work fine.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:08PM (#185754)

    Iceweasel IS Firefox, just with a different icon (and perhaps in the future without a propietary pocket?). Anything that works in Firefox will work in Iceweasel.