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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday July 14 2015, @10:22AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday July 14 2015, @10:22AM (#208808) Journal

    Well I use 2 browsers, I prefer it this way as I've yet to find a "one size fits all" WRT the web. On the Chromium side I use Comodo Dragon, it has some REALLY nice security features like malware site blocking and Comodo Secure DNS (which uses their enterprise DNS, works great and I have yet to see a single malware site load but you can choose to use the OS DNS if you prefer) and if you REALLY want a "secure as you can possibly get" you can pair it (as well as Chromodo and IceDragon) with their free Comodo AV which will then give you the option of launching your browser in a virtual machine, complete with sandboxed download folder. I give this to all my customers at the shop, its dropped malware infections right off the chart, heck Comodo AV even comes with the option of running a "virtual desktop" where everything on the PC is locked down and sandboxed, great for my business customers (and I use it myself when I have to go to a dodgy site to find some old driver). BTW all the Comodo browsers by default start off with the Yahoo home page, whether you consider that malware or not is up to you ;-)

    As for the Gecko side while IceDragon works great I'm just not a fan of its GUI so I use PaleMoon, it uses the old Firefox GUI while the dev team has made it clear that all the crap choices that have come to FF these past few years will NOT be coming to PM. They have set up their own sync servers (and of course you have the option of using your own) and just as Comodo Dragon/Chromodo lets you use all the Chrome plugins so too does PaleMoon allow you to use all your F plugins so having a tree view in either browser? Easy Peasy. But hell man, all the ones I listed above are all free, why not give a few a spin and see which one fits YOU best? I doubt you'll have much trouble with any of the ones I have listed so it really shouldn't be hard to find one that you are really comfortable with.

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