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Yeah. I love Firefox but I wish they'd stop trying to make me use Pocket or their VPN.
by petepete 5y ago
Yeah. I love Firefox but I wish they'd stop trying to make me use Pocket or their VPN.
- uhuhoo 5y agoYup. Sometimes it looks like they are trying to intentionally sabotage an otherwise great product. The regressions in UX are infuriating. Still, it is the only non-WebKit option out there, so there's that. And they at least claim to care abour user's privacy.
- 0des 5y agoI've got a theory google owns pocket and just does it to make us look stupid for using Firefox with some random trash bolted on. Also remember Firefox hello or whatever messenger was once bolted on?
- manquer 5y agoMozilla acquired pocket in 2017. Probably one of the reasons they push it heavily. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...
- GekkePrutser 5y agoOr putting "suggested links" on my new tab page, and adding news. I really don't care what kim kardashian had for dinner. Sure, it can be turned off but it seems like every few weeks I have to go hunting around to turn some new spammy shit off. And even though I sync my settings through firefox sync, these adware 'features' don't seem to sync their settings when I turn them off.