I tried to use Pocket and just couldn't get into it. Software like Adblock and this fakespot thing have to be part of the browser for it to work seamless.
Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
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From my perspective Mozilla is doing a better job with their browser than Google and Apple are, that's why I use it (despite the market share, I prefer their implementation of most things compared to alternatives). Everything else is gravy. I'm not sure that the money Mozilla spends on other things would be better spent on the browser... would it realistically close any existing gaps between their competition? Arguab…
Genuinely asking: Why do you think Firefox is outperforming Chrome / Safari in your opinion?
general usability experience, privacy, color and image rendering (webkit is bad at scaling down without introducing blur for some reason)
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#245I see a lot of people here complaining that Mozilla isn't spending enough of its money on the development of Firefox, but a lot of that money comes from their Google deal. If Firefox started to gain market share over Chrome, do you think that Google would continue to fund them, and if not then who would?
Other search engines would. It already happened that Yahoo paid to be the default search engine in Firefox, for certain regions of the world (Yahoo was for the US, they also had deals with Yandex and Baidu). And Google would probably still want to have its search engine available out of the box to millions of users, even through an other browser.
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#246It looks like the Fakespot add-on is NOT one of the ~20 approved add-ons in Firefox for Android.
It'd be funny if it wasn't so frustrating.
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#247I see a lot of people here complaining that Mozilla isn't spending enough of its money on the development of Firefox, but a lot of that money comes from their Google deal. If Firefox started to gain market share over Chrome, do you think that Google would continue to fund them, and if not then who would?
I believe that the sentiment is that Google funds Firefox despite it's now poor market share as "antitrust insurance".
That makes a lot of sense!
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Although I am unfamiliar with what is sent with geolocation, I do use a VPN, and allowing geolocation on a website does pull my correct location even when connected somewhere far away.
for implicit it is reverse-geocoded from your IP address for explicit it is using device GPS and/or cell tower either you are not actually connected to the VPN or the website is storing your consent to access GPS coordinates. I'm not sure which is scarier to test the former go to a few different websites that tell you your IP address for the latter, fully clear your browser's cookies and cache and retry. does it ask…
Thank you for the response, most likely it is browser cookies, as I've checked my IP address has changed and that there are no leaks. I will try running from a different browser in incognito mode to see if it still works.
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#249You'd think that Mozilla has an excess of funding and has covered absolutely all needs in the browser space leading them to branch out like this... but the browser really needs a lot more hands and funding, I honestly can't make sense of this. And Fakespot: they present themselves as a company that focuses on detecting AI-generated content from human-generated content. It sounds like they've set out to play Whac-A-Mo…
You're thinking like an engineer (functionality) and not like a businessman (assets).
You've addressed some of the assets well: the tech, product, etc.
Mozilla isn't just paying for that, they are paying for the audience. I.e. the millions of people monthly who search for authentic product information.
Mozilla may be interested in selling them another product , or revising the fakespot product – who knows?
I'm just calling attention to the assets that the business paid for and that they are worth the money paid.
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> If it had been branded as a new "reading list" feature native to Mozilla I don't think it would have caused a stir. I imagine Mozilla's thinking there was that they should position the feature so that people who already use Pocket will realize that Firefox isn't adding a separate reading list (like the Safari one nobody uses), but rather that you can just sign into your existing Pocket account in Firefox, and see y…
> I imagine Mozilla's thinking there was that they should position the feature so that people who already use Pocket will realize that Firefox isn't adding a separate reading list (like the Safari one nobody uses), but rather that you can just sign into your existing Pocket account in Firefox, and see your existing Pocket reading-list. That was pretty much how it was viewed at the time (I worked at Mozilla during the…
Tbh, all I recall about pocket is it showed me a load of random content which I had no interest in, which felt spammy. And I think it needs a login for some reason? It certainly looked and felt like an external addon rather than a built-in thing.
If it had just been a reading list I'd have been much more interested.