Julien Voisin blogs:
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:54PM
Man, am I glad that I'm on Linux where this shit is simply impossible. Separate root/user accounts FTW!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 13 2015, @04:46PM
"Separate root/user accounts FTW!"
I have multiple instances of Firefox, and muliple profiles. Root only knows about SOME of those instances. Nightly, for instance, runs out of a folder in my home folder. I haven't used Nightly in quite a long while, and I suspect that it's hung up at v 35 or 36. Nightly never asks if you want to update - it just pulls the update, installs it, then informs you that it wants to be restarted for updates to take effect. Ice Weasel won't update unless/until root authorizes it.
Pale Moon, on the other hand, sits quietly on my desktop, waiting for me to tell it what to do.