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by sp332 3224 days ago
Why would it be addressed before anyone complained? And it was planned as part of the Readability feature, which is very popular and not considered "unnecessary". But FF devs were having a hard time making a good read-it-later UI and decided to use Pocket instead of reinventing the wheel.

Edit: To be clear, I think the browser code was always a stub, and the privacy policy was modified before the feature launched as part of Firefox.
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CaptSpify 3224 days ago
My concern is that Mozilla has been on a "Sure, you can provide feedback, but we're gonna do it anyway" streak. Pocket is quite unnecessary, and would be a great candidate for an add-on. I don't know their reasons for bringing it in, but it seems pretty cut and dry that there were a lot of users who didn't want it even after it was cleaned up, and Mozilla ignored them.
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sp332 3224 days ago
I think you're probably just underestimating how popular it is. Tagging activity tripled from 2012 to 2017. They had 10 million monthly active users in February when Firefox bought them.
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CaptSpify 3224 days ago
Does Mozilla look at any of the other top add-ons and implement them natively in the browser? Why was Pocket so special?
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sp332 3224 days ago
http://www.planet-libre.org/?post_id=18514

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/firefox-dev/B3jJq_kUuIQ/32zv...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/388ryl/pocket_and_...

This is the best I can do not being involved and two years after the fact.

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