Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful ā€œPocketā€ app our throats on every browser upgradeā€¦ itā€™s really useless tbh

@firefox

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

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

    • ozeliurs@sopuli.xyz
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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@sopuli.xyz
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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 ā€œAdd to Pocketā€ button to work. The extension just remained logged in and stuff worked.

        Iā€™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 ā€˜pocketā€™.

    • extensions.pocket.enabled

    And if you canā€™t manage that, Iā€™d stay away from using words like ā€˜uselessā€™ā€¦

    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 doesnā€™t usually come back on upgrades for me, but every time I setup on a new device it is annoying to have to remove.