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Today, I updated my Firefox, and had a new icon on my toolbar: pocket. I took at quick look at the ToS and privacy policy; here is my tl;dr:
Read it Later, Inc. is collecting a lot of intimate information and is tracking you.
When you share something through Pocket with a friend, the emails contains spying material using malware-like techniques to track your friends.
They are sharing those information with trusted third parties (Could be anyone they are doing business with.).
The policy might change, and it's your responsibility to check Pocket's website to see if it has.
[...] The Pocket implementation is not an extension (while it was available as an extension), it's implemented in Firefox. You can not remove it, only disable it, by going in about:config, since this option is not available in the preferences menu.
What the hell is pocket? on Mozilla's site:
The Pocket for Firefox button lets you save web pages and videos to Pocket in just one click. Pocket strips away clutter and saves the page in a clean, distraction-free view and lets you access them on the go through the Pocket app. All you need is a free account, an Internet connection and the Pocket button.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by KBentley57 on Monday July 13 2015, @01:42PM
In concept I agree, the source is there and can at least be preserved.
However, a huge open source project is still a huge project. Because we have the source doesn't mean a fork is easy. Look at the backers of the projects you mentioned. Mint(http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php), LibreOffice( AMD, Google, Red Hat, SUSE, Intel...more), X.org(basically same as LO), and others. I'm actually very surprised to see SN continually up and running with the low level of funding, low number of devs, and so on.
The barrier of entry/modification makes it highly improbable that even a internet-community driven effort could evolve FF into something significantly different that what it is now. Palemoon is an example, but even that project has a crap level of documentation/build details. Iceweasel isn't different than FF, though I suspect that it would have the best chance of survival with the large debian ecosystem.
It takes money for large projects, and without it, they do not change.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zugedneb on Monday July 13 2015, @08:11PM
What you say is the reason for me never donating money to any project, although I would like to.
With "sufficient" resources, the projects just grow until a spoon is not a spoon any more.
Also, the better economy, the more psychos in the staff...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax