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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @02:38AM (#208723)

    Lol at Comodo Dragon. "the world's leading online security and trust assurance innovator" seems to want both cookies and javascript to use their website? Oh, and grand abstract claims instead of actual citations and or details.

    After allowing their stupid java-script to use their UI I determined they have 4 features:

    1. Has privacy enhancements that surpass those in Chromium's technology
    2. Has Domain Validation technology that identifies and segregates superior SSL certificates from inferior ones
    3. Stops cookies and other Web spies
    4. Prevents all Browser download tracking to ensure your privacy

    The last one is impossible (the provider of the downloads can at least count them no matter what you do), 1 and 2 are horribly unspecific, and #2 is pretty unspecific (chrome already does that, and they don't offer details beyond what chrome does).

    And really, if your focus is security/privacy, why advertise windows XP support no linux or BSD variants?

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