Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful āPocketā app our throats on every browser upgradeā¦ itās really useless tbh
about:config extensions.pocket.enabled false and find and disable: telemetry, normandy, sponsored
Maybe Iām in the minority but I do enjoy Pocket to have a backlog of articles I can read mostly distraction-free.
I understand that some people enjoy it, it would be probably better as an addon not as a included functionality showing up at every update.
I agree with this. I have been using Pocket way before it was integrated into Firefox and tbh the extension was much better - seems like after tying it to my Firefox Sync account I have to relogin every few days to get the āAdd to Pocketā button to work. The extension just remained logged in and stuff worked.
Iām intending to switch over to self-hosted Wallabag though, for privacy and efficiency reasons.
The ads are annoying, but Pocket is a good app.
Personally find Instapaper to be better though. I got annoyed by the in-your-face-upgrade mentions. Instapaper also has slightly more customizations in the free tier and looks nicer overall.
wha? I use Firefox and I havenāt seen or heard of Pocket in years.
Are they any custom compiles of Firefox that donāt have pocket?
Librewolf doesnāt have Pocket IIRC.
Just disable it!
You know, do
Ctrl+Nthen type 'about:config` and then (just a stroke of genius on my part) type āpocketā.extensions.pocket.enabled
And if you canāt manage that, Iād stay away from using words like āuselessāā¦
I never noticed that it gets shovelled after a browser update (update = new version).
Hear, hear. It doesnāt usually come back on upgrades for me, but every time I setup on a new device it is annoying to have to remove.
