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757 points shak77 | 2 comments | 15 Dec 17 13:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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linkmotif ◴[15 Dec 17 14:50 UTC] No.15932174[source]▶
I checked out FF for the zillionth time the other week after the Quantum release hoping to love it, but the deep Pocket integration was just too offputting. Turning it off requires some Googling. There were other irritating commercial things too. It’s a shame. FF is probably the most important open source project in the world and it’s a shame they do stuff like this. I’m still on Chrome :(
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calcifer ◴[15 Dec 17 16:00 UTC] No.15932682[source]▶
> but the deep Pocket integration was just too offputting

You mean the single button that does literally nothing until and unless you click on it?

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1. linkmotif ◴[15 Dec 17 16:04 UTC] No.15932717[source]▶
Yep, that button was really annoying. And the Pocket thing on the home screen, too. And the fact that I had to Google to figure out how to disable it.

If you must know why, I don't want promos for particular web properties in my browser. I find Pocket to be annoying conceptually (a service to help you carry around all the things you didn't and won't read—eww, no, no thank you), and I don't want to look at it every day. I don't want to have to Google to figure out how to disable it. I don't want my browser to come with nonsense I need to disable.

> You mean the single button that does literally nothing until and unless you click on it?

This must be the kind of mentality that leads people at FF to do silly things like mentioned on this thread, or having "just one button" for their acquired web property. That's the opposite of how great product minds think. Great product people think "how can I REMOVE this button?" Not "how can I get away with having it?"

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2. dredmorbius ◴[15 Dec 17 20:28 UTC] No.15934800[source]▶
Despite some strong criticisms I've made about Pocket, it actually is a pretty good tool, as such things go.

My main complaints are that it's not more useful, though with some tweaks, I've made it just that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...

https://pastebin.com/LjMA5Dms

It needs more help than just CSS, but that's a start.