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Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by encryptluks2 »

Firefox accounts are terrible. I recently thought I had a second account because I got some error about not using the primary account when trying to reset the password using that email. Turns out that Mozilla still had an old account connected even though it was removed in their interface. If you look through their bug report history they've been plagued with similar issues that they've never been able to figure out. The Firefox Sync protocol is a mess.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by oblak »

Has anyone around here tried to run their own pocket/ff account replacement server for session management? I did some reading a couple of years ago but got caught up in other things and never even tried doing it.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by 3np »

YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo wrote: post #4

We still got no news about self hosting of pocket. Does authentication work with a selfhosted Firefox Accounts instance?

I don't think I've seen anything official after this: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/pocket-source-code/43686/12

Quite a lot has happened on their GH, though. I don't think the web front-end is there, but it seriously looks like they're getting there?

https://github.com/Pocket

It's pretty radical just how transparent Mozilla actually is, I think. Here's the start of the mentioned migration https://github.com/mozilla/fxa/issues/10635

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