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by anc84 3991 days ago
Looking at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us... it looks like Adblock Plus and Video DownloadHelper are really popular. Adding those by default would make things better for everyone. Lots of people are loving those addons and using them on a daily basis. They do not do you any harm if you don't use them. You could just click the addons menu and remove them.

Yeah, petty, but well...

How many of the Firefox users actually wanted Pocket and how many are using it? AMO says 217,149 users which is a laugh.

Back in the days I felt like Mozilla was about user control and also privacy. Now you add a third-party feature that gets to know things you want to read later or your other devices without there being any need for them to know. At the very least, this information should be end to end encrypted.

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> How many of the Firefox users actually wanted Pocket and how many are using it?

Honestly, since when does users (talking about your average Joe) know what do they want? IMHO, I don't see the harm of bundling Pocket if including it improves the experience of users.

The only concern should be the privacy implications.

Apart from the privacy issue, I consider the integration of a proprietary third-party provider to be a concern. I am totally fine with the functionality itself being added, but it should be a Mozilla project. I could see myself becoming a user then.