What is Pocket?
- mightyglydd
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Re: What is Pocket?
Hmm, well I find Reader + Reading List very useful, Mozilla claim it was a work in progress and Pocket was a simple solution/alternative, could it be it works fine (sure seems to here..so far) but they've hidden it as Pocket generates $$$ ?
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Re: What is Pocket?
I don't see how it could generate money... seems like the opposite... wouldn't Mozilla have to be offering up a big chunk of cash to make sure the Pocket servers can handle the uptick?
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Re: What is Pocket?
Not sure how this stuff monetizes, but Read It Later Inc are hardly new kids on the block.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(application)
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Re: What is Pocket?
It probably monetizes through data collection.
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Re: What is Pocket?
Yep that would be my guess, one thing's for sure, Mozilla's directing a LOT of new business their way.
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Re: What is Pocket?
Omega X wrote:It probably monetizes through data collection.
Of course. Not for a moment I had doubts about this.
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Re: What is Pocket?
i just removed the Pocket icon from the toolbar since i'll never use it
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Re: What is Pocket?
I may have missed this if it was posted earlier in this thread, but you can disable pocket by toggling the pref browser.pocket.enabled to false.
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Re: What is Pocket?
Anyone notice if you drag the 'pocket' from the navbar into the customize palette that there is no Icon ? only the test 'Pocket'
Bug maybe already filed ?
Bug maybe already filed ?
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Re: What is Pocket?
patrickjdempsey wrote:I don't see how it could generate money... seems like the opposite... wouldn't Mozilla have to be offering up a big chunk of cash to make sure the Pocket servers can handle the uptick?
And IMO that service might be less reliable if Mozilla was running it. Mozilla managed to screw up Sync recently ...
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Re: What is Pocket?
I don't see that, in Customize I've got the icon, too.TheVisitor wrote:Anyone notice if you drag the 'pocket' from the navbar into the customize palette that there is no Icon ? only the test 'Pocket'
Bug maybe already filed ?
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Re: What is Pocket?
Discussion about pocket for those interested: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox - mozilla.governance - Google Groups
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Re: What is Pocket?
Not much of a discussion yet.
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Re: What is Pocket?
But he made his point.
And a good point indeed: once again, what should be -by any reasoning- an optional extension related to an external (non-essential) service gets included by default, whilst actual parts of the browser stay neglected (Panorama, improvements to the library, various annoying bugs that never get fixed).
And a good point indeed: once again, what should be -by any reasoning- an optional extension related to an external (non-essential) service gets included by default, whilst actual parts of the browser stay neglected (Panorama, improvements to the library, various annoying bugs that never get fixed).
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Re: What is Pocket?
The "off switch" doesn't quite work yet, at least not in 38.0.5...
I've set browser.pocket.enabled to "false" and the toolbar button disappeared. But then, in the Bookmarks menu there is still "View Pocket List" which opens a new tab and tries to connect (which it can't as I've also changed the url prefs to localhost, just in case). If someone can reproduce this on trunk, may be worth a bug report.
Also, what is browser.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey? Is this a personally/installation identifying key? Looks suspiciously like a tracking mechanism.
I've set browser.pocket.enabled to "false" and the toolbar button disappeared. But then, in the Bookmarks menu there is still "View Pocket List" which opens a new tab and tries to connect (which it can't as I've also changed the url prefs to localhost, just in case). If someone can reproduce this on trunk, may be worth a bug report.
Also, what is browser.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey? Is this a personally/installation identifying key? Looks suspiciously like a tracking mechanism.