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I also end up reading pocket even though I hate it. I'm pretty sure the articles come from places like hackernews, reddit, and digg since I noticed overlap. Its
by 0ldskool 5y ago
I also end up reading pocket even though I hate it. I'm pretty sure the articles come from places like hackernews, reddit, and digg since I noticed overlap. Its basically an "aggregate aggregator". Android's Newsfeed that comes up my pixel phone is even more annoying because it seems to track everything I read using the same latest techniques they use for ads. If anyone on my intranet or a private intranet I have connected to likes to read something, they'll recommend that category of news to me. I hate it but I end up reading some of the news anyways since it does interest me...
- nixonpjoshua1 5y agoI always assumed that the recommendations are based on what people save to pocket or even save to pocket, and so the bias towards HN/reddit I figured was due to an overrepresentation of Firefox/pocket users on those sites compared and/or the bias of what pocket users choose to save vs simply a sampling of what gets published.
- discardedrefuse 5y agoI don't actually use pocket. I even removed the icon from the toolbar. I just some times click articles on the newtab page. Here is some info on how FF handles those recommendations. https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-recommendations-faq#personalized https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...