Data doesn't go to pocket until you start using it, and even then, you have to click through a few pages to get there. Pages which make it abundantly obvious that its a third party service.
Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it.
It's not different from the privacy implications of having Google/Yahoo as a default search provider. It's a nice feature that (very visibly) uses a third party service instead of being part of Firefox Accounts.
"Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it."
I'm really not convinced by this as an argument. People might like all sorts of harmful things, once they see them. And the fact that people might want something that provides the functionality that Pocket provides, or something like it, doesn't mean that using Pocket specifically is a good idea.
This is an argument against "users didn't like it", not in itself a reason to use Pocket. Though if you couple this with the fact that Pocket integration isn't much different from search does help its case.
Mozilla did user testing before integration and found that people do want it. Remember that techies complaining on HN doesn't mean that the majority doesn't like it.
It's not different from the privacy implications of having Google/Yahoo as a default search provider. It's a nice feature that (very visibly) uses a third party service instead of being part of Firefox Accounts.