Mozilla has recently been improving. Still not perfect, but it could be salvaged, and it's the best option I see right now. (Another option would be forks by capable teams already familiar with the code bases, but they wouldn't necessarily be any more trustworthy.)

You can disable pocket though. Even if you don’t it doesn’t do anything other than take space on your search bar

And you can take it off the search bar. Right click on the toolbar -> Customize Toolbar... and then set it up the way you want.

How? If you don't want to use Firefox Sync then don't use it. If you don't want to use Pocket then don't use it.

It's not hard to not use them. I don't use either one.

Firefox's users shouldn't have to ignore or disable them.

That kind of extraneous functionality just shouldn't be bundled with Firefox to begin with.

If a user does want such functionality, then an extension could be voluntarily installed to provide it.

Maybe it's useless but it's not abusive as it does not behave in a way that the user does not want.

The other browser tried to push for Web Integrity API and is now degrading adblock experience, I feel that there's really no comparison.

Mozilla may have missteps but the browser still clearly seem to be siding with the user.

I agree that this could be viewed as bad. However, this is way less of an issue than Google taking choice away, which is what the great-grandparent comment was about.

Just use Librewolf. Comes with none of that crap, but does come with uBlock Origin.

Virtually all software comes with options I turn off and settings I change, from the operating system to the simplest utility.

The defaults are almost always not what I want.