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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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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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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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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.