Let me pay for Firefox

Personally I really hated getting Pocket shoved in my face, but it seems some people missed it.

It was nice for its Kobo integration and (for now - apparently Kobo is considering alternatives) there is no direct alternative.

No I didn't miss it but it made me hate it so much I wouldn't even try it. And I wouldn't have used it even if I liked it, in order to disincentivise this behavior.

I’m used to this behavior in Microsoft Land. OneNote was pretty good but I’m sure they killed it by putting three icons for it on the taskbar and making the ‘print’ dialog print everything to OneNote if you didn’t quadruple-check what you were printing to. I liked the local XML files cause I could write scripts that extracted stuff from them. Then they killed it for me by making it cloud only. Then they just killed it.

OneDrive was dead to me in the first week because (a) it was the default save location for Office and (b) if it was broken I could not save at all. That’s how to be sure somebody never uses a product ever again! It’s shocking to see how vertical integration can so utterly fail —- DropBox can make a product that doesn’t fail catastrophically on a large number of platforms, kernel integration and all dooms Microsoft’s product on their core platform.

Yeah me too. Even at work, Microsoft provides "adoption management" courses, on how to push users to use new apps or features we're introducing. Sometimes even consulting. I find this behaviour repulsive. But Microsoft is evangelising this to our business leaders. It's not even real knowledgeable people that are doing it, it's only sales guys. They just want to show pretty graphs to our leaders with rising adoption numbers. They don't care about our business at all.

I'm always fighting against it because the users hate it as much as I do, and usually I manage to get it stopped or watered down.