And, please @firefox/ @mozilla, remove those tracking links from #MozillaPocket. With that, you bring discredit on yourself.
Mozilla didn’t hear you, and they’re adding a shopping addon instead. Thanks to buying a company that trafficks in private data, which is now an official Mozilla subsidiary.
That’s right, Mozilla is now an adtech company.
At least Pocket is “universal” – it works on every site. The shopping extension only works on the three biggest commerce websites within one country.
Firefox might be the “lesser evil” but that don’t mean they’re a saint.
If you’re concerned about privacy you’re gonna have to do abit of the legwork yourself. Arkenfox Is probably the quickest way to harden standard Firefox and I’ve used it for years without issue.
If you want a more out of the box solution then then Librewolf is a privacy focused fork with much better defaults and most of the questionable crap just ripped straight out of the code.
I never use Pocket and have it hidden. I forget that it’s still there most of the time.
@CaptObvious Probably for the best. However, in my opinion, this is only done, when privacy is the default.
You expect too much of them. They promised to open source pocket 7 years ago, maybe that will happen after another 7 years.
I disabled pocket lol
@scottmeme Probably for the best. However, in my opinion, this is only over, when privacy is the default.
One of the first things I do when installing Firefox.
To disable pocket go to about:config and put in this
extensions.pocket.enabled -> false.Yup, pocket is super easy to remove, so it’s really not an issue IMO. It’s scummy that it’s enabled by default, but it’s about the easiest anti-feature to remove.
Just disable pocket via user.js.
Same thing with all the links on the addon store.
That’s there source of income…
