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 JNCF on Thursday May 21 2015, @01:30AM
But some proprietary plugins won't work with Pale Moon. (Like, say, hangouts video chat).
Probably because the video chat uses WebRTC, which the PaleMoon guy removed after polling his user-base. They see it as bloat, and a security issue. I haven't used PaleMoon since realising this; I think peer-to-peer browser communications are fundamentally awesome. Sending your data through a server when you really just want it to go to a peer seems like its own bag of worms.