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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 AndyTheAbsurd on Monday July 13 2015, @01:01PM

    by AndyTheAbsurd (3958) on Monday July 13 2015, @01:01PM (#208441) Journal

    I don't know about anyone else, but I don't see any added value to Pocket over just being able to sync bookmarks and tabs, and share links with my friends and collegues over any of the dozen or so communications media that we may already share (e-mail, Skype chat, Twitter, IRC, Facebook, Facebook chat, Google Plus, Google Hangouts, HipChat, Slack, etc...hell, I used to have Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger accounts but I have no idea if I could sign in to them anymore since I haven't used them in years). Am I just missing something? Or is Firefox trying to (finally!) add features to differentiate itself from Chrome, instead of seeming to just blindly copy what Chrome has done?

    (Yes, I'm a grumpy old man. Get off my lawn!)

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2015, @01:10PM (#208450)

    The added value is all your personal information they can sell to line their pockets.