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

@firefox

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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

    • ozeliurs
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Zackyist
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        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.

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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      Personally find Instapaper to be better though. I got annoyed by the in-your-face-upgrade mentions. Instapaper also has slightly more customizations in the free tier and looks nicer overall.

  • Ben@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Just disable it!

    You know, do Ctrl+N then type 'about:config` and then (just a stroke of genius on my part) type ‘pocket’.

    • extensions.pocket.enabled

    And if you can’t manage that, I’d stay away from using words like ‘useless’…

    I never noticed that it gets shovelled after a browser update (update = new version).

  • ewe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hear, hear. It doesn’t usually come back on upgrades for me, but every time I setup on a new device it is annoying to have to remove.