extension-save-to-pocket

I would like something similar for Mozilla Firefox. On a very basic level, maybe Mozilla Firefox reader view can ignore the loading equals lazy hint and load all images. One step deeper, maybe we can keep these articles in some kind of local cache? Come to think of it, what happened with Pocket, that Mozilla acquired? We were supposed to open source the pocket server like five years ago. Did it happen? Does anyone even care about pocket (the read offline app) anymore? Edit: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75

It has been "owned up" to: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...

That doesn't seem quite true... the first comment here links to open pocket which links to a discussion in a github ticket with the previously closed source pocket team where they note they are a small team and just have not had a lot of bandwidth to cleanup the formerly closed source server. That discussion was last summer. https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75... This comment in particular.

Four years. It was three years over a year ago: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...

> For those interested in building an open source Pocket, please check out https://github.com/open-pocket/open-pocket [0] [0] https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75...

Bitter-sweet seeing new Pocket features in there, knowing that the service is still proprietary more than 3 years after its acquisition. If Mozilla wants to become a service company, it should just say so: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75

Unpopular opinion: as a "technical" person, Mozilla and Firefox's behavior over the last few years really should raise red flags in the technical community. The various so-called "experiments" with advertising and other features might have helped with the bottom line, but it erodes confidence at a time where people are more conscious of privacy-related matters. Even the open source advocates should consider that huge parts of Pocket are still closed source [1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/31/mozilla-ad-on-firefoxs-ne... [2] https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/06/mozilla-to-launch-firefox-... [3] https://drewdevault.com/2017/12/16/Firefox-is-on-a-slippery-... [4] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/ [5] https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75

It's been 2 years. They have no specific plans to release the server code.[1] They won't say what's been done or has to be done. [1] https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75

And it still is not open-sourced, two years and five months after the acquisition: https://github.com/Pocket/extension-save-to-pocket/issues/75 For comparison, it took Red Hat less than two years to open source Ansible Tower.

Pocket replaced Reading List, which was all of those things. Pocket was a third party when Mozilla integrated the service into Firefox. Mozilla employees denied for months that Mozilla took money for the integration. It came out later that Mozilla took money for referrals. Pocket doesn't follow Mozilla's privacy principles.[1] Despite that, the Pocket website says "as a member of the Firefox family, privacy is paramount."[2] Mozilla committed to make Pocket open source over 2 years ago. There are no longer plans to release the server-side code.[3] It's a big deal to some people because they trusted Mozilla and vouched for Mozilla to other people. My parents understood "even Mozilla can't see your bookmarks". Explaining that Mozilla could see the new kind but not the old kind was harder. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/principles