Dear Firefox, please stop shoveling that awful “Pocket” app our throats on every browser upgrade… it’s really useless tbh

@firefox

  • m-p{3}
    22·
    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m in the minority but I do enjoy Pocket to have a backlog of articles I can read mostly distraction-free.

    • ozeliurs@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Zackyist@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • arghya_333
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • BenEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    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).

  • ashed
    12·
    1 year ago

    about:config extensions.pocket.enabled false and find and disable: telemetry, normandy, sponsored

      • CadeJohnson@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        I was just looking in “the hamburger” under settings > Home and I see that I have unchecked the “Recent Activity” box which is the only place in settings where I see Pocket mentioned. So maybe that has some to do with it? Not sure though . . .

  • hglman
    31·
    1 year ago

    Are they any custom compiles of Firefox that don’t have pocket?

  • Jerald
    1·
    1 year ago

    I kinda like pocket, but it needs a lot of freaking upgrades. It isn’t good. Many things can be improved!

  • poorsocialskills
    21·
    1 year ago

    There’s an about:config setting that completely disables it, but you’ll have to do a search. I don’t recall the exact setting.

  • Moonrise2473
    1·
    1 year ago

    They paid millions to acquire pocket, why do you think they wouldn’t showel it down your throat?

  • ewe@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    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.