> Firefox should continue to add new features that benefit its users, but those
> features must be done in accordance with Mozilla's core values. This feature
> should've been done as an extension, which allows for greater user choice and
> avoids bloat.
I assume some of the German people at Mozilla have already seen this, but I'd
just like to leave these comments from a German IT-news article here:
http://www.heise.de/forum/iX/News-Kommentare/Mozilla-nimmt-Reader-Software-Pocket-in-Webbrowser-Firefox-auf/forum-198500/page-2/
Translating a few subject lines, for those who are interested:
- "Sowas von überflüssig.." - "Totally unnecessary.."
(the comment is about how Pocket should be extension)
- "Proprietärer Cloud-Dreck!" - "Proprietary cloud-crap!"
(the comment is about how Pocket is just another spy-/bloatware component
that got added to Firefox, and how you need to disable it in about:config to
make it stop 'phoning home')
- "Zum Abschalten: about:config -> browser.pocket.enabled = false" - "To turn
this off: [...]"
(subcomments include things like "Wozu wohl der String
"browser.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey" dient? Ein Schelm..." ("I wonder what the
browser.pocket.oAuthConsumerKey option is for? Evil to him who evil thinks..."))
- "Und er wird immer fetter ..." - "And it [the Firefox core] is getting more
and more bloated..."
- "Bitte noch Thunderbird und Sunbird integriegen..." - "Now please go on by
integrating Thunderbird and Sunbird..."
(goes on about how we will end up at Netscape Naviagtor and/or a web suite,
being the primary reason why Firefox exists and that we have to to choose
between the devil (Chrome) and the deep blue sea (Firefox) these days)
Those are really sad to see. Unfortunately, they are getting more and more
common these days.
> It may also not be clear to some users that, even when signing in with your
> Firefox account, you are still giving your email address to a third party
> whose privacy policy is different than Mozilla's.
In my opinion this is particularly bad. Why should anyone expect
core-components to 'violate' your privacy by adhering to different rules (i.e.
ones that you wouldn't expect, seeing as component X is part of the Firefox
core)?
I hope somebody at Mozilla sees the need for a (few) change(s).
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