I ran into this https://ecpmblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/mozilla-and-data-sharing which claims:
‘Firefox users becoming upset.’
The original piece starts with this:
Today, I updated my Firefox, and had a new icon on my toolbar: pocket. I took a quick look at the ToS and privacy policy’
and found conditions like these:
- Read it Later, Inc. is collecting a lot of intimate information and is tracking you.
- When you share something through Pocket with a friend, the emails contains spying material using malware-like techniques to track your friends.
- They are sharing those information with trusted third parties (Could be anyone they are doing business with.).
- The policy might change, and it's your responsibility to check Pocket's website to see if it has.
The author of the original article - Artificial truth · Firefox, you’re supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around. - comes to this ‘reasoned’ conclusion:
‘It seems that I am not the only one that hates this awful idea. Mozilla is getting worse and worse and worse and worse those days, instead of not hurting the web… it used to be a defender of privacy, now it's promoting shady services.’