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Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox by floatingatoll on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:27PM (#15422128)
Correction: We bought Pocket, not sold out to Pocket.
Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox by mercer on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:12AM (#15422375)
Your behavior in this discussion sickens me, and I'm not saying that lightly.

Not only is this 'clickz' thing antithetical to any privacy argument that made me a supporter of Mozilla and Firefox, the fact that you're in here responding as if this is not a big deal is a slap in the face. I was bothered by having Pocket shoved down my throat, let alone another unasked privacy situation.

What's so difficult about just providing a fucking browser that does not harvest my data for ads? Are you bored?

I've seriously never been angry on an online forum since I was in my teens, and yet here we are.

Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox by heeen2 on Saturday October 07, 2017 @05:30PM (#15425813)
Devil's advocate, but the difficulty is a delivering a very complex piece of software to a highly competitive market to customers not willing to pay for anything.
Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox by JosephLark on Saturday October 07, 2017 @12:32AM (#15422291)
What's with the revisionist history? Mozilla acquired Pocket long after the controversy. Per wikipedia [0]:

Integration into Firefox: June 2015

Acquired by Mozilla: February 27, 2017

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service)

Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox by pseudalopex on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:31AM (#15422420)
Mozilla killed Reading List, signed a referral deal with Pocket, and made misleading-at-best statements for months before coming clean. You bought Pocket more than a year after that.