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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

OMG I JUST started using Pocket because my work banned Firefox and made us all switch to Edge!!

Now how am I going to sync bookmarks and pages I want to read later on my personal devices??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If your work doesn't care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn't require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..

Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They literally have control of and log every app that’s installed and will bug you until you uninstall it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Unless they're doing app signing or binary examination, some of the methods to "log every app" literally look for an executable name. Renaming "firefox.exe" to "explorer.exe" (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, I don’t know how they’re doing it. They’re using some “zero trust” system. It’s beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They are probably scanning for the binary file executable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

There’s Instapaper and once upon a time they even gave you an email address to send links into. Maybe they still do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I forgot what it is called but there is an extension that syncs bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium browsers.