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Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 by scrollaway on Saturday July 30, 2016 @10:31AM (#12193122)
Pocket isn't just about the development costs.

Any long-time firefox user with a shred of sense could have predicted (and did predict) the massive fallout that came from Pocket. Yet, Mozilla didn't.

Everybody assumed Mozilla took money from Pocket. Yet, Mozilla didn't.

The Pocket situation is hilarious. People see a 3rd party service being shoved down the throats of the user, they immediately assume Firefox is "selling out". Mozilla got all the negatives of a bad deal, and none of the money. It takes a certain skill to mess up this bad.

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Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 by pseudalopex on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:50PM (#12194168)
Mozilla did take money from Pocket, just not up front.

"Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies."

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...

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Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49 by yuhong on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:02PM (#12194209)
Yea, I remember this fiasco when it happened on Reddit.
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