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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 khedoros on Monday July 13 2015, @09:17PM
doesn't it seem odd to you that they'd get so big, so fast, and with so much power on 'search, alone' ?
Not particularly. They came along when there were a dozen commonly-used search engines, each of which provided somewhat "meh" results. I remember searching for things across multiple engines because different ones tended to index different pages. Google was the first engine that I knew that tended (even at the beginning) to have what I wanted in the first couple pages of results, and they continued to get better over time, relative to their competition. When most other engines provided a "web portal", Google stuck to search, built up their name, and then started adding extra crap. And if it hadn't been Google that hit that trajectory of success, it would've been whichever other engine had made similar advancements the fastest (or, at least, marketed themselves the best). I think we're just looking at a case of selection bias.