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posted by n1 on Monday July 13 2015, @12:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-you-share-the-more-you-care dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @04:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @04:17PM (#208541)

    If you have 70+ tabs open, you have different problems

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  • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday July 13 2015, @08:05PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Monday July 13 2015, @08:05PM (#208626)

    6+ months uptime...

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    old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
  • (Score: 2) by GoonDu on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:22AM

    by GoonDu (2623) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:22AM (#208708)

    B-but I may read them later! Sure, I opened that tab 6 months ago, but I will get back to it! Just let me finish this wikipedia article...

    • (Score: 2) by zugedneb on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:38AM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:38AM (#208713)

      manuals, articles, anime, manga, youtube + various shit. it ads up.

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      old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Popeidol on Tuesday July 14 2015, @08:40AM

      by Popeidol (35) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @08:40AM (#208792) Journal

      You might be interested in a new browser feature designed to let you close the tabs down now while putting them in list for you to read later

      It's called Pocket...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:24AM (#208781)

    That Firefox memory management sucks?

    Apart from that problem, 70+ tabs works just fine, and has done so at least since Opera 6.