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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla (programming.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.

And while I don't think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would've been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.

The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.