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Mozilla actually owns pocket now; they seem to believe that giving people recommendations from around the web is the best way to combat walled gardens who want
by pietroglyph 8y ago
Mozilla actually owns pocket now; they seem to believe that giving people recommendations from around the web is the best way to combat walled gardens who want all your content going through them. This article is pretty revealing: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...
I still don't think it should be proprietary, and I don't use it, so
extensions.pocket.enabled = false
is my friend.
- swiley 8y agoI wish that where off by default, it actually makes me feel uncomfortable installing firefox on my laptop at work even though it really is better than chrome when you want to read docs and don't have a ton of free memory.
- infinityplus1 8y agoSo, what do you use? Chrome is more comfortable?
- swiley 8y agoYes, chrome doesn't dump news articles on my screen every time I open a new tab. I use firefox anyway, it just makes me uncomfortable.
- foepys 8y agoChrome on Android does. Although you can now hide it since a few weeks ago.
- supuun 8y agoyou can easily customize that
- guu 8y agoTurn off site recommendations: https://help.getpocket.com/article/1147-hiding-pocket-in-your-firefox-new-tab https://help.getpocket.com/article/1147-hiding-pocket-in-you... Disabling Pocket: https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-save-to-pocket-features-in-firefox https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-save-to-po...
- gertlex 8y agoThis is weird to me; I never open a new tab in a manner that exposes me to that... it's always typing into the URL bar and then hitting alt+enter, or middle-clicking a link. (Plus session restore)
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