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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Informative) by pkrasimirov on Monday July 13 2015, @12:55PM
Once a fresh new app (Phoenix), nowadays I see Firefox only as a steam train out of control. It defaults to more and more bloatware like Mozilla at the time. The very reason Phoenix was created.
(Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Monday July 13 2015, @12:58PM
Not to worry: open source means that firefox has non-shitty forks.
I, personally, use Pale Moon now. Which is basically firefox sans the corporate bullshit.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:10PM
I'd try Pale Moon, but guess what! The download is on sourceforge! AAAAAAAAAAAAA
http://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org]
(Score: 4, Informative) by ikanreed on Monday July 13 2015, @01:19PM
No, it isn't.
http://relmirror.palemoon.org/release/palemoon-websetup.exe [palemoon.org] - that's pretty clearly not sourceforge.net.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:27PM
That may be true, but the Linux download page takes me here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pm4linux/ [sourceforge.net]
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday July 13 2015, @01:35PM
Oh, right, linux. That's important too.
But then again, the best way to get pale moon on linux is your distro's preferred variation on apt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:40PM
What if your distro doesn't have a package manager? Ok, I know, I know. :)
I'm building it from source (http://gnu.mirror.vexxhost.com/gnuzilla/) now.
(Score: 2) by kadal on Monday July 13 2015, @08:23PM
On the forum, they said that they were going to move from SF soon.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 13 2015, @04:57PM
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8515 [palemoon.org]
Pale Moon for Linux is moving!
Postby Moonchild ยป Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:48 am
Pale Moon for Linux will be moving from SourceForge to our own in-house server soon. Version 25.5.* will be the last version that is offered on SourceForge.
We are moving away from SourceForge for a few reasons:
Pale Moon includes strong encryption methodology that would be subject to US cryptography export laws on SourceForge. Since we have no intention to compromise on user security, we are currently using SourceForge in the "grey area" of still being condoned as-such, but it's not exactly correct.
SourceForge has been very unscrupulous in its applying of stub installers to Open Source software to bundle "offers"; even going as far as hijacking abandoned accounts to plant their stub installers in place or otherwise control previous projects' sites without consent. We cannot condone that kind of behavior.
SourceForge is too advertisement-heavy these days to be a comfortable place to host Pale Moon.
We will be posting more details as the new site/server is being set up.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:11PM
Just installed Pale Moon and trying a first submit with it.
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Monday July 13 2015, @03:01PM
Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kell on Tuesday July 14 2015, @12:23AM
Yes: it turns out the dude has rhythm.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 1) by xorsyst on Monday July 13 2015, @01:38PM
Is there any way to get the tab bar on the side in Palemoon?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday July 13 2015, @01:48PM
Not that I'm aware of. They initially forked because of UI disagreements, like about where tabs go along the top and whatnot. But I personally switched because Mozilla added the third unwanted plugin and I decided I was done.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TK on Monday July 13 2015, @01:57PM
I use Tree Style Tabs [sakura.ne.jp] in Palemoon. Works great.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @03:00PM
You should put a proper attribution to your sig.
(Score: 3, Funny) by JNCF on Monday July 13 2015, @11:22PM
You should put a proper attribution to your sig.
The mind that wrote those words, in turn, had greater minds to go on,
While these again had greater still, and greater still, and so on.
(Score: 2) by TheB on Monday July 13 2015, @03:57PM
Can't browse without Tree Style Tabs anymore.
70+ open tabs would be unmanageable without it.
That and All-in-One Sidebar make full use of a widescreen monitor.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @04:17PM
If you have 70+ tabs open, you have different problems
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday July 13 2015, @08:05PM
6+ months uptime...
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
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
manuals, articles, anime, manga, youtube + various shit. it ads up.
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
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
That Firefox memory management sucks?
Apart from that problem, 70+ tabs works just fine, and has done so at least since Opera 6.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @02:09PM
The version in this post works: http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=7269#p47076 [palemoon.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @01:49AM
I keep going to download Pale Moon, but every time I check they claim OSX in development.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:11AM
Trying it out, but FF is still functionally better. I burned my 'warranty' with about:config and messed up the settings, urls, etc for pocket. This is getting really sad for me as I have used FF since before v1.0.