[deftnerd]

It's getpocket.com, actually. The io one is just a domain for sale.

You know, I was furious about the pocket integration and partnership when it first happened almost six years ago. I didn't like the idea of third-party integrations. I was also mad that they didn't bow to pressure from the community and remove the integration...

But now, I kind of respect Mozilla for keeping it despite the community pressure. They were making money with the partnership, and money from sources OTHER than Google is a good thing.

After two years of this, Mozilla realized that Pocket was making so much money on paid memberships that it was smarter to use some of their war-chest to buy Pocket outright.

That's right, Pocket is owned by Mozilla now and has been for 4 years. [1]

Now it's an important part of their financials. In their Auditors report covering all of 2019 [2], they say "Mozilla’s subscription revenues primarily consist of revenue from subscriptions to a service known as Pocket Premium". The subscription revenue for 2019 was over 14 million, triple what it was in 2018.

This makes me more comfortable because I don't mind, in theory, subscribing to services that actually fund Mozilla.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po... [2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...

[jart]

Yeah thanks for mentioning that. The pocket integration would come across better if they put it under the mozilla domain name. I installed Firefox for the first time in a while about a month ago. I plugged it into a proxy to see what it does. When I saw all the Pocket telemetry I was afraid they had gone the Dell "bundling" route, until I looked it up and discovered it was owned by Mozilla.