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One of those browsers tracks everything you do if you sign-in, the other does it only to increase retention, not to track your activities. Guess which is which?

• anonymousab 7y ago
  It would be better not to do [questionable thing] than to do it at all. I don't particularly care whether nagware functionality is benign or not.
  • Vinnl 7y ago
    A common complaint with Firefox was that you couldn't sync between devices - even though that was perfectly possible! But apparently, people had a hard time finding the functionality. You might not consider that use case important, but I wouldn't call it questionable.
    • anonymousab 7y ago
      I'm amiable to this reasoning right up until software conveniently forgets that I told it "no, I don't care, stop bugging me about it". And again. It's the kind of "oops haha just a mistake that we did the bad thing again" shenanigans that Mozilla employees complain about Google doing.
      • Vinnl 7y ago
        That's fair.
  • simias 7y ago
    Firefox sync is super convenient though, I don't really agree with you that it's a dark pattern. It does make using your browser more convenient across devices and I'm sure many people coming from chrome expect this to work out of the box especially since, AFAIK, google auto-logs you into Chrome as soon as it can. On the other hand I find Pocket a much more questionable addition.