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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2015, @09:44AM
You are being a hole. I have to use windows on my work laptop, because my work software, any of it, does not run on linux. I can't help it.
Once again someone selfish does not understand what other people have to suffer and makes ignorant comments. Not everything is about you and your choises.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday May 22 2015, @04:10PM
I'm not being an a-hole, I'm just pointing out that this is futile. If you're using Windows, you've already given up on data security. You don't know what the Windows OS is doing with your data underneath. So why do you care what a browser does with your data? If you're required to use Windows for work, that's fine, just restrict your activities to work-related activities. If your employer's secret data gets leaked, that's their problem and their fault for using Windows. That doesn't mean you have to do the same with your private data.