All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts(blog.mozilla.org) |
All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts(blog.mozilla.org) |
Is this still a thing? How would today's firefox handle a custom sync server?
Practically, it's poorly documented clusterfuck of very confused technologies (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18448125). I hope they've possibly sorted that out over the years, but I don't have much hopes. Although they seem to went monorepo for FxA stuff (IIRC, it used to be that Accounts and Content services were separate). Still, no end-user docs - best you can get is assorted bunch of articles aimed at developers: https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel... - summing it up, it's a project that no one seem to have ever meant to be able to use outside of Mozilla, an ability to self-host it is an accident.
It used that one could've host a single simple program and have everything working. After switch to Firefox Accounts, trying to deploy all those services and their dependencies (and keeping up as it grew) quickly became complicated. I used to maintain my own half-assed almost-all-in-one re-implementation (https://gitlab.com/drdaeman/firesync, still required Kinto as a dependency), but I gave up.
https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
I don't want all my accounts joined. I don't want a threat model where being locked out of one service takes down everything, especially when that service has no support. This applies to gmail and Mozilla equally.
If you want a free, more direct pocket clone, check out wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
The second is the parsing seems to work much better.
Also, I can subscribe to RSS feeds or sign up to email newsletters so that they go directly to Readwise Reader.
I guess for me the difference is that if my firefox account goes away tomorrow, it is an issue I can resolve by making a new one. It's annoying but it doesn't concern anyone but me.
Losing access to my gmail address because of some youtube fuckup, now there's something that disrupts my communications with others and is hard to recover from.
*) Or whatever the real reason was. It was about time Mozilla started to have management issues so I absolutely won't be surprised if the goal was to "become an ecosystem" or "gather a userbase" (or whatever is management speak for forcing people to sign up).
Firefox Sync already had a Reading List which was encrypted and open source, they really didn't need to bundle a third-party proprietary cloud service that required an account and increased attack surface (https://web.archive.org/web/20150818175419/https://www.gnu.g...). People who wanted pocket, and found it valuable would still be just as well off with it as an add-on, everyone else would have been spared the extra trouble of disabling it.
Firefox is still the best browser in terms of privacy and security but only after you make an ever growing number of about:config changes, many of which exist only to remove or disable anti-features added by Mozilla. I really wish Mozilla would embrace privacy, security, and customization as what (apart from the rendering engine, which most users will never be aware of) truly differentiates them from chrome and every other popular browser which are also chrome, but again and again their choices are in direct opposition to those very same principles
I don't believe the ads shown in Firefox require sending any browsing history to the web (whether to Firefox or anyone else). The mechanism used here is different. I do agree with you that pushing ads into the browser chrome by default is abhorrent (a judgment compounded with the fact that they initially pretended that these weren't ads).
I am not sharing my bookmarks with Mozilla, I am way too smart for that.
It kinda worked to quickly save items but I have always wanted it to be better at organizing items. Tagging is a hassle and even though it has suggested tags most of the time they are not useful, and also you have to apply them individually!
Lately they added Lists, which I don't know how is different from pinned tags, adding more confusion.
Also I am not really sure, but I think the search functionality don't work reliably.
I just hope wallabag or Matter don't just let my unreaded links rot.
It's the only bookmarking tool I ever stuck with.
I also use Firefox as my main browser.
That being said, if it was more integrated with Firefox and Firefox's bookmarking tools, that might make it compelling for me again, so maybe this is a good thing....
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In fact I don't want to open accounts with anyone. Not with social media, not with newspapers, certainly not newsletters. Accounts allow better tracking that cookies, and cookies are now regulated.
If a web site tries to get me to open an account, it will reflect poorly on my view of them, and I will be less inclined to come back.
I only opened an account here after years of lurking and trust building and I still only log on if I want to comment or upvote something.
Then it's not and issue for you, as you probably didn't want to open an account with pocket in first place, right?
>Then it's not and issue for you, as you probably didn't want to open an account with pocket in first place, right?
Then it's not an issue for you, as you probably didn't want him to want to open an account with pocket in the first place in the first place, right?
Cheers to consumer choice!
Linkding: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
I'd rather it not become any more integrated, I just want to browse the web and use extensions for additions like this.
How is that not still an account? What definition of account are we working with here?
You used to just open two Firefoxes, start sync setup on the one, copy (or scan) a code to another - boom, done, they're talking to each other.
Other options might be to have that personal homepage on a non-public machine (e.g., on your home or office LAN), behind a VPN, and/or password protected.
Another practice from days of yore was to export specific bookmarks and transfer those to other systems. This is indeed cumbersome with mobile browsers (I'm not sure these even offer bookmark import/export ... Looks as if that's synch-only for Firefox/Android, which is disappointing.
Semi-annual PSA: Pocket was supposed to have been open sourced when Mozilla bought them out. Spoiler alert: it isn't. On the other hand, maybe we should give the parties involved the benefit of the doubt. These things take time, after all—the change in ownership was only announced in 2017.
(Perhaps the person you're responding to has a perspective on tardiness that has been influenced by Mozilla Corporation's relationship with the concept.)