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Whats really interesting to me is that this seems to be more of a huge marketing issue. Pocket IS Mozilla* and it seems like people would be more ok with the integration if they knew this. Now, obviously, Mozilla does need to improve the sponsored stories and not track the user without input, but at the same time, its not a 3rd party in the general stance.

* https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...

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> Pocket IS Mozilla* and it seems like people would be more ok with the integration if they knew this.

I'm less forgiving. The Pocket service is proprietary - this technology couldn't fall into the right hands - and it directly competes against open web standards like RSS/Atom. I honestly don't know how they justify it against the Mozilla Manifesto.

Good info! I had no idea it was a subsidiary of Mozilla. I was even at pockets website and I didn't see any obvious indication.

That still leaves them on the hook for sending your data to companies like DoubleClick. I hope it also means the data the pocket guys are collecting will fall under Mozilla's policies because I've been trusting them so far not to sell my data to anyone willing to pay for it, while generally I wouldn't put that kind of faith in a targeted adverting company.

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