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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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