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> Pocket code in Firefox is open source, you can examine it yourself You can see the client side code but what Pocket is doing with all the data on the server
by nacs 11y ago
> Pocket code in Firefox is open source, you can examine it yourself
You can see the client side code but what Pocket is doing with all the data on the server side is completely opaque and source is unavailable.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoSo is basically every single website you visit and all the data you share with them wittingly or unwittingly. Pocket isn't a password manager, it's a short scrapbook of things you want to read later.
- nacs 11y agoNot every website I visit has its code integrated right into my open-source browser. And you can build a pretty accurate profile of a user from analyzing the content people mark to "read later" (and how long they spend reading them).
- toomuchtodo 11y agoYou don't get access to the source of any site you're sending HTTP GET or POST requests (dynamic content) to with Firefox, yet you're complaining about client code for Pocket?
- nitrogen 11y agoNot every website collects data. A pure HTML/CSS/JS site can be examined fully.
- Manishearth 11y agoThis only matters if you use Pocket. This is no different from search integration. There's local code that lets you do Google/Yahoo/etc searches from the home page or the awesomebar. What these sites do with your data on the server side is unknown.
- nileshtrivedi 11y agoFirefox gives many choices for search integration. Perhaps something like that would have made Pocket more acceptable.
- toyg 11y agoExactly. If the problem was note-saving integration, they should have built an open interface for it, and then maybe (maybe) endorsed Pocket as the reference implementation, featured in the extension gallery or on the start screen. Bundling Pocket outright, like Mozilla was just another Silicon Valley company, was very shortsighted.
- zanny 11y agoAlmost like you could install Pocket whenever you wanted to use it in your browser and remove it when you didn't want it, like you can with search engines? Also, I would not particularly call those search engines a great comparison. They are simply keyworded bookmarks - you set the URL and when you enter a character or click the icon it loads the bookmark. The extent of integration was the search options menu where you can add any website's search field and it inherits the icon from that website, so its generic.
- ironsides 11y agoThe fact that we are still talking about Pocket being integrated in 2016 amazes me. Especially considering that Mozilla was designed and intended as a community project.