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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by pseudalopex on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:47AM (#24120804)
Did you mean invasive?

Pocket isn't end to end encrypted. The Reading List it replaced was.

Protesting Pocket by using Chrome makes no sense but integrating Pocket objectively sacrificed user privacy for a revenue stream.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by ffpip on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:56PM (#24126941)
Pocket cannot be e2ee. It has to render the URL beautifully for each domain. It can only be done server side.

It also has to offer suggestions/recommendations, so they need to track you

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by pseudalopex on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:13PM (#24127051)
Web pages can be rendered in web browsers.

Why do you think it has to offer suggestions? Reading List didn't. The equivalents in other browsers don't. Suggestions could be a separate opt in feature.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by ffpip on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:37AM (#24139971)
It is not a normal render. It has a particular layout for each domain.

It removes the ads, signups, etc. They call it 'Article View'. It is rendered per domain.

People actually like the suggestions thing. They get good articles to read.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by pseudalopex on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:47PM (#24273943)
Pocket's Article View is optional. Firefox has Reader View built in. Special handling for top sites could be built in. Special handling for any site could use a protocol designed for privacy like malware protection does.

People who want suggestions could opt in.

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