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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Yoric on Friday December 07, 2018 @06:31AM (#18626795)
Good point. But Pocket isn't harmful, especially if you don't use it. In the worst case, it makes the Firefox installer a few kb larger, that's about it.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Karunamon on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:36AM (#18627491)
The same could be said of the RSS support.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Yoric on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:50AM (#18628083)
True. The big difference is that users use Pocket but didn't use RSS.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by tjoff on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:03AM (#18628743)
A lot of people have a really strong negative perception of pocket. That should be enough to be able to remove it.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Karunamon on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:36AM (#18628502)
Meaning the nontechnical set of users that don't go out of their way to disable telemetry, at least...
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by dao- on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:21PM (#18630100)
If you disable telemetry, Mozilla won't know about you. If you want Mozilla to cater for you, don't disable telemetry?
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by ekianjo on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:03PM (#18633395)
Telemetry should never be enabled by default without consent. Its a dark pattern.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by hnaccy on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:09PM (#18630569)
It leaks information about my browsing history.
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