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>Pocket

I don't follow. How does a built in extension to save pages to a cloud account equate with the systematic and pervasive abuses of privacy that are Google's business model?

>Gab

I was not aware of this platform. Here are some lovely snippets from Wikipedia:

>Gab stated that conservative, libertarian, nationalist and populist internet users were its target markets.

What a lovely "free speech" platform. Can't imagine why it was "censored", where by censored we actually mean: we will not distribute this on our website, though you are still free to install it on your machine if you want. Come on... Porn is also legal, and also not available on the Firefox website, and also freely available for you to get elsewhere.



Personally, I think that Gab is a dumpster fire that it's best to avoid, yet I am very sensitive to browsers making content/editorial decisions for their users. From a security perspective teaching users to jump around browser protections is never a good idea. It's going to bite us in the butt at some point.


Ignoring the fact that pocket is a company with dozens of employees who curate content and calling it just an extension to save pages is deeply disingenuous. If you're right, why lie? Pocket suggests articles and lets you save them.


I'd be mad except that I often find the suggestions interesting. Don't really get the whole save for later thing, sounds like bookmarks.




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