[anonymousab]

It would be better not to do [questionable thing] than to do it at all.

I don't particularly care whether nagware functionality is benign or not.

[Vinnl]

A common complaint with Firefox was that you couldn't sync between devices - even though that was perfectly possible! But apparently, people had a hard time finding the functionality.

You might not consider that use case important, but I wouldn't call it questionable.

[anonymousab]

I'm amiable to this reasoning right up until software conveniently forgets that I told it "no, I don't care, stop bugging me about it". And again.

It's the kind of "oops haha just a mistake that we did the bad thing again" shenanigans that Mozilla employees complain about Google doing.

[Vinnl]

That's fair.

[simias]

Firefox sync is super convenient though, I don't really agree with you that it's a dark pattern. It does make using your browser more convenient across devices and I'm sure many people coming from chrome expect this to work out of the box especially since, AFAIK, google auto-logs you into Chrome as soon as it can.

On the other hand I find Pocket a much more questionable addition.