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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by unethical_ban on Saturday December 05, 2015 @09:51AM (#10682016)
I guarantee you most Firefox users either use Pocket, or don't care that it's a default feature in the product now.

I am in the boat that wishes it was removable, perhaps as some kind of "default add-on", but it's not. I'm not removing FF because of it.

And as for ads: Were they tracking people with them? Were they sending back GUIDs of my browser every time I loaded a new tab? This is a legit question that would affect my opinion on the matter. The ads I see are brief, and cannot take more than a miniscule amount of data to serve. By those metrics, I have no problem with them.

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Re:Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox by volaski on Saturday December 05, 2015 @01:52PM (#10682848)
I didn't remove FF because of it either, but these things pile up slowly--makes me think WTF were they thinking?--and if I see several more of these I will probably stop using it. As I mentioned in another thread somewhere, I agree a lot of people don't care or not aware, but if asked directly "would you rather have this Pocket extension come pre-installed or not?" I am sure majority of them would say they don't want it. Just because people don't complain doesn't mean they're fine with it. People live with shitty customer service from comcast but that doesn't mean they have good customer service.
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