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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by vrazj on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:51AM (#18626893)
That's cool. And? I use a lot of addons. Should they all be bundled because many people happen to love them too?
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by AsyncAwait on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:57AM (#18626918)
To be fair, Mozilla now owns Pocket. It's not just some random extension. Chrome comes preinstalled with YouTube, Gmail etc. too. It's a bit of cross-property promotion and to be fair, Pocket is indeed quite useful.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by peteretep on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:53AM (#18627215)
> To be fair, Mozilla now owns Pocket. It's not just some random extension.

My understanding is that at the time it was foist in users it was very much just some random extension, tho

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by AsyncAwait on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:11AM (#18627754)
They did not own it from the start, but they did have a special privacy agreement with Pocket regarding user data. Also, the acquisition was a result of user feedback, something Google would likely ignore.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Shorel on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:02PM (#18630510)
If you own a Kobo, it is even more useful.

In fact, I switched to Firefox because of the pocket integration, not the other way around.

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