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What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them? Mozilla should never have added Pocket by default, and should remove it. But they won'
by madez 9y ago
What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them?
Mozilla should never have added Pocket by default, and should remove it. But they won't, just like they set a default search engine for you: they need money. They might be a non-profit, but they do pay wages and have other costs and therefore they need a business model. They choose cooperating with advertisment companies.
Sometimes I think Mozilla's FireFox acts as an supposedly user-focused advertisement for the web whereas the web is abhorrent. When thinking along these lines, it is beneficial for Google to give Mozilla money so there is atleast someone that pretends to make the web work only for the user. After all, Google wants the web in its current state to appear like a good thing.
We really need new browsers that do not play along with advertizers. But I think with the hype train that FireFox has it is difficult to get people to stop and think if things are really going well with it.
- sp332 9y agoYou know Mozilla owns Pocket now, right? They're not tracking you or selling your data to someone who does.
- msla 9y agoThe second part doesn't follow from the first. If they're willing to force-install an advertisement on browsers, who knows what they're doing behind the scenes.
- ZenoArrow 9y ago> "What difference made the search bars in IE if you never clicked on them?" The Pocket button is tiny. I often forget it's there. Furthermore, other browsers have similar "Read It Later" features, do you have a problem with those too? "Read It Later" type services are useful in browsers as alternative to bookmarks. Are you going to complain that bookmarks should be an optional browser feature as well? Are you really that bothered by a couple of small buttons in the corner of your browser UI?
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoAh, so unilateral install of unwanted commercial applications are fine for you as long as each one defaults to a standard icon. You'll be happy when they add the Nike, Netflix, Tesla, or Chanel logos then so long as each is only a standard icon? "It's just one icon ..." well two that I know of so far.
- ZenoArrow 9y ago> "You'll be happy when they add the Nike, Netflix, Tesla, or Chanel logos then so long as each is only a standard icon?" Quoting myself... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16233707 "If most detractors were honest with themselves the reason that Pocket had the backlash is because people saw it as a move towards the commercialisation of Firefox. The fact that Mozilla now owns Pocket outright seems to be largely ignored."