And, please @firefox/ @mozilla, remove those tracking links from #MozillaPocket. With that, you bring discredit on yourself.
You expect too much of them. They promised to open source pocket 7 years ago, maybe that will happen after another 7 years.
I switched to Omnivore which is open source and has a Firefox plugin.
I disabled pocket lol
One of the first things I do when installing Firefox.
@scottmeme Probably for the best. However, in my opinion, this is only over, when privacy is the default.
The thing is. Firefox is an open source browser, but it is full of tracking and monitoring and unwanted telemetry.
It’s probably a good idea to get inspiration from this and add some of the configuration to your
user.jsto get rid of most of the tracking:https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/Securefox.js
To disable pocket go to about:config and put in
extensions.pocket.enabledand set it tofalse.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.
Both excellent choices. Mullvad Browser and Tor are also options but the ones you mentioned are better for the average end user who cares about privacy. Since 95% of people I know do not.
I use all four in different machines and for different tasks.
Firefox is full of tracking and paid advertisement links (default links on homepage and new tab page, stories, etc.), but this can be cleaned out quite well through
user.jssettings.
Just disable pocket via user.js.
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.
Same thing with all the links on the addon store.
