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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @08:59PM
I used to use Pocket, back when it was called ReadItLater and they had yet to go full spyware on recording very page you archived.
Now I use ScrapBook [mozilla.org] which is not as slick as Pocket but is not spyware and doesn't try to save everything to the cloud.