Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful “Pocket” app our throats on every browser upgrade… it’s really useless tbh
Are they any custom compiles of Firefox that don’t have pocket?
Just disable it!
You know, do Ctrl+N then type 'about:config` and then (just a stroke of genius on my part) type ‘pocket’.
extensions.pocket.enabled
And if you can’t manage that, I’d stay away from using words like ‘useless’…
I never noticed that it gets shovelled after a browser update (update = new version).
The ads are annoying, but Pocket is a good app.
Maybe I’m 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 “Add to Pocket” button to work. The extension just remained logged in and stuff worked.
I’m intending to switch over to self-hosted Wallabag though, for privacy and efficiency reasons.
Hear, hear. It doesn’t usually come back on upgrades for me, but every time I setup on a new device it is annoying to have to remove.
