Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox
by floatingatoll on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:27PM
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Correction: We bought Pocket, not sold out to Pocket.
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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.
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
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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
Re:Testing Cliqz in Firefox
by pseudalopex on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:31AM
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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.