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> How can they claim to support open standards on the web and lower maintenance overhead while still pushing their bloated built in centralized service that is
by ihuman 8y ago
> How can they claim to support open standards on the web and lower maintenance overhead while still pushing their bloated built in centralized service that is very difficult to turn off entirely even though it should just be one button?
Because Mozilla owns Pocket
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
- throwaway2048 8y agoThis isn't about owning not owning pocket, its about paying for pocket development, while claiming that rss is too big of a burden to maintain.
- dralley 8y agoRelative to usage? Because only 0.01% of Firefox users have ever used Live Bookmarks. I don't know how many use Pocket but I would be shocked it it wasn't far higher.
- kibwen 8y agoAs someone who has used Firefox almost exclusively since 2004 (ok, there was a year or two of Opera in there...) and as the sort of power user who continues to doggedly consume RSS to this day... yeah, I've never used Live Bookmarks. I remember seeing them in my bookmarks bar on fresh Firefox installs back in the day. The interface just wasn't amenable to my use patterns, and Google Reader was (these days I'm on Feedly).
- reitanqild 8y agoI too never got Live bookmarks. I'm using feedbro now.
- emn13 8y agoAs a user that did use Live bookmarks I would be pretty pissed off if anyone merely by my usage counted me as an excuse to keep supporting that nonsense. I use pocket now - lightly. It's still heck of a lot better than live bookmarks. Live bookmarks never worked very well, now did it? What percentage of people complaining about this are actually using the RSS support in FF itself at this moment?