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> Mozilla took a third-party, proprietary service and bundled it into the browser This is no different from the integration with Google or Yahoo. The Firefox-s
by Manishearth 11y ago
> Mozilla took a third-party, proprietary service and bundled it into the browser
This is no different from the integration with Google or Yahoo. The Firefox-side code is not proprietary. It doesn't consume resources if you're not using it.
You can remove it via the customizeable UI feature too.
I've seen Firefox employees stating that there was no money involved.
- asddubs 11y agowow, if there really was no money involved, this has to be the dumbest PR decision they've made
- spyder 11y agoI agree, and if it wasn't for money then it's possible that someone at Pocket has a friend at Mozilla who pushed the integration of their business.
- rockdoe 11y agoIIRC Pocket (then called Read It Later) won a Mozilla add-on design competition, the guy won a MacBook and then went on to build a company out of it. Edit: Checking more closely, something like that: http://getpocket.com/blog/2009/08/reading-it-later-two-years-of-read-it-later/ http://getpocket.com/blog/2009/08/reading-it-later-two-years... So it does sound likely that Pocket was well known.
- seba_dos1 11y agoThis. I really hope there was money included, because that's the only reason to do this integration that I understand and somehow accept.
- emn13 11y agoThere is this odd concept that things might actually be useful to people called "users". I think the integration is useful, and I've used it quite a bit. It's a lot better (faster, more reliable) than pocket's old extension.
- seba_dos1 11y agoWalled garden "ecosystems" can be also useful to people called "users". There are plenty of ways they can give up their privacy to gain some convenience. Do we really want Mozilla to go that way though?