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Announcing that Pocket would be baked directly into the browser, against the will of users—rather than being a promoted extension and despite the fact that it was at the time a completely unrelated company selling closed source SaaS and in the business of collecting telemetry—and then proceeding despite the widespread backlash doesn't bother you? Issuing misleading PR statements carefully worded to strongly suggest that there was no money changing hands re Pocket integration while maintaining plausible deniability concerning the truth, which is that there was money changing hands—that doesn't bother you? That the subterfuge was so effective that Mozilla employees themselves who were not otherwise in the know took it as a statement that there were no kickbacks involved—and then showed up in places like HN comments outright saying that there weren't kickbacks—that doesn't bother you? The fact that when Pocket was bought, it was understood and even claimed that it would be open source (just like all the other Mozilla Foundation IP), and yet we are in our seventh year after the acquisition and it's no more open source today than it was then—this doesn't bother you?

Is there any threshold for mendacity that if crossed would bother you?




It's not that I'm cool with the Pocket bullshit. It's just that I can't bring myself to more than a shrug when I put it next to Google or Microsoft.

I mean, Chrome (including Chromium, IIRC) literally collects and ships a bunch of tracking data to Google THE FIRST FUCKING TIME YOU LAUNCH THE APPLICATION.

Context matters. If Firefox did the Pocket nonsense in an environment where we had multiple decent free (as in freedom) browsers, then I'd grab my pitchfork. As it stands, I just can't feel the righteous indignation your comment is trying to rouse. It's truly NOTHING compared to the other options.




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