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Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful “Pocket” app our throats on every browser upgrade… it’s really useless tbh (mastodontech.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful “Pocket” app our throats on every browser upgrade… it’s really useless tbh

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

about:config extensions.pocket.enabled false and find and disable: telemetry, normandy, sponsored

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

wha? I use Firefox and I haven't seen or heard of Pocket in years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm in the minority but I do enjoy Pocket to have a backlog of articles I can read mostly distraction-free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand that some people enjoy it, it would be probably better as an addon not as a included functionality showing up at every update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this. I have been using Pocket way before it was integrated into Firefox and tbh the extension was much better - seems like after tying it to my Firefox Sync account I have to relogin every few days to get the "Add to Pocket" button to work. The extension just remained logged in and stuff worked.

I'm intending to switch over to self-hosted Wallabag though, for privacy and efficiency reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The ads are annoying, but Pocket is a good app.