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Comment by pietroglyph | Hacker News Reader

Mozilla actually owns pocket now; they seem to believe that giving people recommendations from around the web is the best way to combat walled gardens who want all your content going through them. This article is pretty revealing: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...

I still don't think it should be proprietary, and I don't use it, so

  extensions.pocket.enabled = false

is my friend.

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I wish that where off by default, it actually makes me feel uncomfortable installing firefox on my laptop at work even though it really is better than chrome when you want to read docs and don't have a ton of free memory.

So, what do you use? Chrome is more comfortable?

Yes, chrome doesn't dump news articles on my screen every time I open a new tab.

I use firefox anyway, it just makes me uncomfortable.

Chrome on Android does. Although you can now hide it since a few weeks ago.

you can easily customize that

Turn off site recommendations: https://help.getpocket.com/article/1147-hiding-pocket-in-you...

Disabling Pocket: https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-save-to-po...

This is weird to me; I never open a new tab in a manner that exposes me to that... it's always typing into the URL bar and then hitting alt+enter, or middle-clicking a link. (Plus session restore)

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