And they almost fubar'd the Pocket integration witht the Kobo eReaders in the process.
All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
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Re: All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
#22Browsers shouldn't have accounts to begin with.
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#23This sounds like a good thing imo. Pocket is a great tool that should be fully integrated
pocket is a... well, it's a tool anyway, that never should have been anything but an add-on. Including it in the browser was one of the biggest signs that firefox was willing to sacrifice their user's privacy and security for revenue. If people are fine with telling Pocket what they read and letting them push related ads at them all day they should absolutely have that choice, but it should never have been shoved on everyone.
Firefox Sync already had a Reading List which was encrypted and open source, they really didn't need to bundle a third-party proprietary cloud service that required an account and increased attack surface (https://web.archive.org/web/20150818175419/https://www.gnu.g...). People who wanted pocket, and found it valuable would still be just as well off with it as an add-on, everyone else would have been spared the extra trouble of disabling it.
Firefox is still the best browser in terms of privacy and security but only after you make an ever growing number of about:config changes, many of which exist only to remove or disable anti-features added by Mozilla. I really wish Mozilla would embrace privacy, security, and customization as what (apart from the rendering engine, which most users will never be aware of) truly differentiates them from chrome and every other popular browser which are also chrome, but again and again their choices are in direct opposition to those very same principles
Re: All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
#24Browsers shouldn't have accounts to begin with.
Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?
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#25For a while there was an announcement that pocket would stop working on kobo devices, due to this announcement. But now it seems kobo will be given an extension and will make their pocket integration work with Firefox accounts.
I already killed my pocket account and switched to self-hosted wallabag when I saw they were killing off Kobo integration.
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#26Browsers shouldn't have accounts to begin with.
Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?
You value the syncing browser accounts offer. Personally I like being able to go between several of my own computers and not have all settings synced. It's not a fresh slate situation but it is a bit freeing to not carry all my digital baggage all the time.
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#27Re: All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
#28Browsers shouldn't have accounts to begin with.
Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?
This niche use case which offers a marginal benefit even to those who want it, is a laughable mask for the assembly and deployment of one of the world's largest data harvesting networks, the browser 'sync' account
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#29Re: All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
#30Seems like pocket is losing a lot of its value due to more sites not working with its article view. I've stopped using it because of that and also because it doesn't work well for pages that aren't articles and I didn't like having to maintain multiple bookmarking tools.
That being said, if it was more integrated with Firefox and Firefox's bookmarking tools, that might make it compelling for me again, so maybe this is a good thing....