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Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser

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757 points shak77 | 1 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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linkmotif ◴[15 Dec 17 14:50 UTC] No.15932174[source]▶
I checked out FF for the zillionth time the other week after the Quantum release hoping to love it, but the deep Pocket integration was just too offputting. Turning it off requires some Googling. There were other irritating commercial things too. It’s a shame. FF is probably the most important open source project in the world and it’s a shame they do stuff like this. I’m still on Chrome :(
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sp332 ◴[15 Dec 17 14:53 UTC] No.15932204[source]▶
Firefox bought Pocket. So it's a first-party feature.
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1. throwaway2048 ◴[15 Dec 17 23:51 UTC] No.15936323[source]▶
I cant help but feel mozilla bought pocket because they wanted to justify the included adware nature of it as a first and foremost priority, after all the supposed logic of including it was all about reducing costs for mozilla..