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What's wrong with Pocket?

zipppy 9y ago
It's not about what's right or wrong about Pocket.
yarrel 9y ago
What's right with it? If I want to install it I will. I don't, but Mozilla feel that is their choice to make, not mine. You can't remove it (and disabling it is hard enough), so you cannot reduce the attack surface of your browser if you don't use it. It's also really badly integrated into the new mobile version.
- r3bl 9y ago
  > and disabling it is hard enough There's no need to disable it since nothing happens until you click the button. Removing the button itself is as simple as right-clicking it and clicking on the (only) available option: Remove from Address Bar.
  - Hello71 9y ago
    but... why do I have to? "there's no need to remove the crapware bundled with [pick one: Android, Windows, Ubuntu] since nothing happens until you click the button. Removing the button itself is as simple as [opening the Settings, opening Control Panel, apt-get remove]." mozilla is in a seriously bad spot if it's lowering itself to the level of Acer, HP & co bundling crapware to the brim.
TAForObvReasons 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809 was contemporaneous with the introduction of pocket. The top comments are probably representative: > It is so unlike Mozilla to introduce something like that, I ran a virus scan and checked what programs had been installed recently -- I assumed it had been put there in the same way that IE users used to get the Ask Toolbar installed. > It says a lot about Mozilla when they decide to bundle fad features like these after spending years stripping existing features out of Firefox. During their effort to dumb-down Firefox, it was common to hear that removing those features didn't matter, as they should be provided by extensions instead. Apparently that cheap excuse is ignored when the feature when it is convenient to do so. > Worst of all, there has been almost no communication on this. I subscribe to Planet Mozilla and read everything that seems interesting to me, and I still didn't know this was coming. > They bundele it because they get payed for it. Same story with the new suggested site advertising. The alarming thing is that this way Mozilla is loosing it's independency. > I didn't know I ever had to read the fine print with anything from Mozilla, and it turns out I was wrong. (These are remarkably similar to the criticisms leveled against the current situation)
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It's not about what's right or wrong about Pocket.

What's right with it? If I want to install it I will. I don't, but Mozilla feel that is their choice to make, not mine. You can't remove it (and disabling it is hard enough), so you cannot reduce the attack surface of your browser if you don't use it. It's also really badly integrated into the new mobile version.

r3bl 9y ago
> and disabling it is hard enough There's no need to disable it since nothing happens until you click the button. Removing the button itself is as simple as right-clicking it and clicking on the (only) available option: Remove from Address Bar.
- Hello71 9y ago
  but... why do I have to? "there's no need to remove the crapware bundled with [pick one: Android, Windows, Ubuntu] since nothing happens until you click the button. Removing the button itself is as simple as [opening the Settings, opening Control Panel, apt-get remove]." mozilla is in a seriously bad spot if it's lowering itself to the level of Acer, HP & co bundling crapware to the brim.

TAForObvReasons 9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9667809 was contemporaneous with the introduction of pocket. The top comments are probably representative: > It is so unlike Mozilla to introduce something like that, I ran a virus scan and checked what programs had been installed recently -- I assumed it had been put there in the same way that IE users used to get the Ask Toolbar installed. > It says a lot about Mozilla when they decide to bundle fad features like these after spending years stripping existing features out of Firefox. During their effort to dumb-down Firefox, it was common to hear that removing those features didn't matter, as they should be provided by extensions instead. Apparently that cheap excuse is ignored when the feature when it is convenient to do so. > Worst of all, there has been almost no communication on this. I subscribe to Planet Mozilla and read everything that seems interesting to me, and I still didn't know this was coming. > They bundele it because they get payed for it. Same story with the new suggested site advertising. The alarming thing is that this way Mozilla is loosing it's independency. > I didn't know I ever had to read the fine print with anything from Mozilla, and it turns out I was wrong. (These are remarkably similar to the criticisms leveled against the current situation)

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