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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 dry on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:36AM

    by dry (223) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:36AM (#208759) Journal

    Might have to play with the numlock button and if using a laptop, who knows. You can always press ALT-V, Z and zoom in/out from there.
    I take it you mean SM 2.25? The zoom function has worked here since SM 2 or 2.1 and the F11 worked in Netscape.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:57AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Tuesday July 14 2015, @05:57AM (#208763) Homepage

    Nope. v2.5 (what the whole rest of the software world would call v2.05; browsers cause version madness), but good guess about turning on Numlock -- hate having that on (I use the keypad for navigation too much, and never as a keypad, and I'm so used to font size control on Prefbar....) so didn't even think of it!

    However.... works fine on text, doesn't touch the SVG. Ya know, if they're supposed to be scalable, they need to be a bit more graceful about it!!

    I tend to not 'upgrade' browsers until nothing works anywhere anymore, because I get so tired of "improvements" breaking shit. I have a fresh new SM 2.33 on the "new" linux box, and the first thing I noticed is that wheel-click on a tab no longer closes it, and offhand I couldn't find a setting to change that... a trivial feature, but one I use all day long!

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    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:21AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2015, @07:21AM (#208780)

      Nope. v2.5 (what the whole rest of the software world would call v2.05; browsers cause version madness)

      What whole rest of the software world? Mainframe people?

      Linux is currently at 4.1.2. When Microsoft one in a while uses version numbers (rather than years or random letters), they use numbers like 3.1 and 8.1.

      Or did you mean 2.0.5?