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.
(Score: 2, Informative) by elixir on Monday July 13 2015, @08:12PM
If you are having issues with your browser, you should give Midori a try. It is a lightweight, open-source browser released under the GNU Lesser GPL.
One of my favorite features about it is that you can directly edit the information you send to servers. So here I am posting this on my AIX server running Firefox 83.6.
http://midori-browser.org/ [midori-browser.org]
(Score: 2) by kadal on Monday July 13 2015, @08:31PM
Midori is great but it kept crashing on me. There have been a couple of updates since, so I guess I should look at it again.
(Score: 2) by novak on Monday July 13 2015, @08:53PM
I've been using midori for several years; it used to be a bit unstable but it's improved lately. I still prefer firefox (or iceweasel or palemoon) for most things butit now has an extension called nojs which is pretty great. I intend to use it more as firefox increasingly kills itself.
novak
(Score: 1) by elixir on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:52PM
Midori is much, much more stable now. Crashing was the reason I quit using it in the past as well. I have been using it for over a month now with no crashes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @11:05AM
Too bad i can't seem to change the language of it. I want english, but there does not seem to be an option to change it anywhere. And it crashed when i tried to stop google from injecting a cookie on my machine. I'll keep an eye out for it though.