[verusfossa]

This is good to hear, but I agree that all the positive spin is unnecessary and damages their image. Now they need to backpedal or "evolve" on the Pocket blob issue. However they want to spin it.

[fabrice_d]

Pocket is moving out of the main tree back to being an add-on. You can follow the progress at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

[verusfossa]

This is better, but why built-in?

[01Michael10]

They need to make money... Have you ever donated any to them?

[dombili]

Mozilla reportedly doesn't make money from Pocket [1]. So the money is not the issue. Your guess is as good as mine as to what is.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/38aorv/psa_mozilla...

[e15ctr0n]

Mozilla's lawyer just admitted to Wired magazine that, in fact, they do earn revenue from Pocket.

> Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies.

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...

[chinathrow]

So, Mozilla simply lied before. How should we trust them to not fuck us over again?

A seriously irritated yet still loyal user since Netscape 3.0.

[dombili]

Huh, I must have missed that article. I stand corrected. Thanks for sharing.

[dao-]

Revenue sharing arrangement doesn't mean Mozilla included Pocket for money. Does Pocket even make money at a scale that could be remotely interesting to Mozilla? I very much doubt it.

I also doubt that Telefonica makes significant money with Hello. I can't even imagine a business model around this feature.

I suspect Mozilla was just opportunistic here and made those arrangements in case these features happen to generate revenue some day somehow.