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Re:The cult of the free must die by dandellion on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:52AM (#24142367)
The new crappy address bar that nobody asked for, pocket, hubs, three different mobile browsers, some useless award and probably more that I don't remember.

Also annoying is how they constantly kill useful features like RSS or bookmark descriptions.

I use Firefox because I still like it better than Chrome and I like to support free software, but it's obvious to me that Mozilla doesn't really care about their users and they're too busy chasing shiny things. I expect they'll keep losing market share until they become irrelevant and disappear.

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Re:The cult of the free must die by michaelnik on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:32AM (#24143712)
Meanwhile, to use Web Bluetooth Web (very cool and practical) there is no other option than Chrome[0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

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Re:The cult of the free must die by thomasahle on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:56AM (#24142397)
Isn't pocket a sponsor of Mozilla? I always thought that was why it was there.
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Re:The cult of the free must die by marcusverus on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:05AM (#24142481)
Pocket was a third party service when it became a default Firefox feature in 2015. Mozilla acquired it in 2017.[0] I could not find any data on what they paid.

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

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Re:The cult of the free must die by dwighttk on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:03AM (#24142454)
Mozilla bought pocket
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