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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.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday July 19 2015, @05:13AM
Got it, you're "almost live" as my friend in Searcy used to say :)
I remember at one of Novell's seminars (this was in a previous century), one of their guys was bitching up a storm about marginal power supplies and intermittent network fails, and I think that's when I started paying attention to PSUs... and noticed there's a real strong correlation between not quite enough PSU and dead motherboard without a mark on it. I have a theory that borderline PSU stresses the electronics, maybe just micro-corrosion (like a brown circuit will eventually trash a relay cuz it sparks instead of making good contact) but whatever it does, it's enough that the mobo fails long before it should.
And mass matters. In fact I've found you can make a prediction thus: put the PSU on a scale. If it weighs less than 3 pounds, expect the attached motherboard to live less than 5 years. If more than 3 pounds, it will last forever. (And I like Enermax, who unlike most, make all their own shit.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.