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The funny thing is that even though it's a Mozilla product now and even though it's somehow "integrated" in the browser, I still have to log into it separately regardless of the fact that I am already logged with with Firefox Sync

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Funny that you mentioned that, they're switching quite soon: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pocket-firefox-account-...

I was using Pocket when they announced the start of the transition a while back and their flow to migrate bookmarks to the Firefox account just didn't work, I ended up with an empty account – maybe because I was using a different email address for my Firefox account than for my Pocket account but it made me stop using Pocket altogether, really annoying.

And that's more than six years after the acquisition. This was very poorly handled for sure.

My wild guess is that they could not do a SSO with Pocket and Firefox Sync until they got rid of all the other authentication providers/methods that Pocket supported, a change which people like me would complain about.

> My wild guess is that they could not do a SSO with Pocket and Firefox Sync until they got rid of all the other authentication providers/methods that Pocket supported

Why? Technically, it shouldn't be impossible - one shouldn't exclude the other.

JavaScript that the Kobo can't execute for example. The browser/web view on Kobos is very very limited.

Actually as a kobo owner I've always wondered what JavaScript it can execute, what styles it can render, ect. Always seemed wildly inconsistent. Any idea?

I suspect that very little, if any can be executed. No hard data nor first hand knowledge on that though.

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