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> For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. With a
by Aardwolf 7y ago
> For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content.
With all due respect, if you have to call it an "experience" you know it's something nobody asked for :p
- cptskippy 7y agoLooks like if you're disabled Pocket, that "experience" is disabled.
- rosybox 7y agoYeah I don't see any pocket crap on the new tab page as I had pocket set to disabled.
- basch 7y agoIm probably in the minority, but I think its a good way to compete with Edge/MSN. The clickbait I get out of the pocket new tab page is infinitely more interesting than MSN, which has too much focus on salacious current events.
- thirdsun 7y agoSounds like a lesser evil rather than idea worth competing with.
- marrone12 7y agoI like the Pocket recommendations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- welly 7y agoYou and me both! I've had some great recommendations!
- FillardMillmore 7y agoA lot of the recommendations are great. But there's also some ones recommending low-interest credit cards. I also like Pocket as software. Easily allows me to save pages for later reading and tag them as a method to introduce some organization to all the interesting pages one finds. Since I use Firefox across many devices, this makes my life easier.
- suby 7y agoI'd be fine if they limited it to just unpaid recommendations, but they include sponsored pocket stories in the new page tab too. It's inserting advertising into the web browser in a round-about way.
- _coveredInBees 7y agoGood thing you can turn it off? If you're not paying Mozilla for their browser, it seems weird to me to bitch and complain about ways Mozilla explores to generate some revenue without selling out their user's privacy. Especially when they make it very easy to opt out of the thing you don't like. Comments like yours are what makes me very nervous about the future for Mozilla. They are still entirely at the mercy of Google and their revenue sharing agreement for enabling Google as the default search engine. The day that ends, they are going to be in deep trouble if their user base is so hostile to any potential avenues they choose to explore to stay afloat.
- ferzul 7y agowhere's the button that gives me the paid version, and is it just a donation or a version that gives me a better, ahem, experience?
- maccard 7y agoYou can make a donation, and turn off the feature. That means everyone who can't/doesn't want to make a donation can still have the same experience as you, and you can still support FF.
- _coveredInBees 7y agoHaha, if Mozilla ever hid a "better" experience browser behind a paywall I bet you would be here excoriating them for that move. The general feeling of entitlement that some people in the open source side of things have is quite astounding. They want everything possible, but absolutely for free and then justify how absurd it all is by saying people will pay in droves if only Mozilla made this magical, perfect, privacy-first browser. It's just tragic and I feel so bad for Mozilla in general given the total apathy that most technical minded people have towards their plight and long term financial sustainability.
- danyork 7y agoAgreed! I find many of the recommendations useful. (I also use Pocket personally for bookmarking sites.)
- slater 7y agoI just wish they'd once and for all drop Pocket. At what point do they understand that it's a failed experiment if they constantly have to re-enable and/or "ship" an "experience"?
- jahlove 7y agoor at least make it an extension. But they know people would uninstall it if they were given the option.
- asadotzler 7y agoPeople are given the option to disable it in Options/Preferences and most of them don't. What makes you think implementing it as an extension with a similar disable capability just in the Add-ons Manager instead of Options/Preferences would be any different?
- jahlove 7y agoExactly what setting are you referring to? Because the one they list on their website is in "about:config" [1], and anytime you go into about:config, Mozilla scares users about voiding their warranty. Only tech-savy power users are going to attempt that. > In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter. > 1. The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I accept the risk! to continue to the about:config page. > 2. Type pocket in the Search box above the list of preferences. > 3. Double-click the extensions.pocket.enabled preference to toggle its value to false. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-pocket-for-firefox#w_disable-pocket-for-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...
- slater 7y agoWhat's preventing Mozilla from shipping it as an extension?
- RenRav 7y agoPocket should be an official addon that you can uninstall. It seems unfair to all the other addons.
- bscphil 7y agoI wonder what this means exactly and how it could possibly be worse than what's already the default.
- driverdan 7y agoI agree. I've been a Pocket user for years longer than Mozilla has owned them. The New Tab page should not be making any external requests. If I want to see Pocket content I'll look at Pocket.