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Comment by cseelus | Hacker News Reader

Whats all the hate for Pocket anyway?

Isn't it just like the Reading List feature of Safari (or other Browsers) only more open (syncs with various devices, even some eBook readers which I think is quite nice). Also its owned by Mozilla[1].

1) https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...

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"We've putting this thing that nobody asked for in everyone's toolbar, with no option to remove it, because we think everyone should use it"

That was the hate. If they released it as an official extension, fine, but they baked it into the browser and didn't let you opt out.

But they bought the company, now they are an extension to the company. What the hell is the difference?

they bought the company years after the fact, and seemingly as a rebuttal to the people constantly complaining about it.

I'm not a Firefox user, sorry. Was it integrated before the purchase?

I still don't understand that move. If Mozilla needs money, why spend whay they already have on these useless thigs?

What did they have before buying pocket?

I mean the money they spent to buy Pocket could've been spent on other things.

Yeah but they didn't. Money in the bank doesn't do any good, I'm glad they moving it around. Do you think it halted other things because they did this purchase? This year they advanced pretty well so I don't really see what could they be missing.

If they had money in the bank, maybe they wouldn't need to run these kind of NBC promotions? Maybe they wouldn't need to place advertisements in the new tab window?

Why not? More exposure => more users => more ad income => ROI => GOTO 10

If you honestly think the old saying, "all publicity is good publicity" applies here, then I'm going to strongly disagree. I think this is going to be a black mark on their reputation for the next decade. The worst part is that it hurts one of their biggest selling points over the competition, and that's the trust of the community.

Its just a small icon in the Address Bar and it can be removed with a right click on the icon and selecting "Remove from Address Bar".

It's also in the right-click context menu, right below Save Page. Save Page to Pocket.

> with no option to remove it

I just try to remove it after seeing your comment. You can simply right click the pocket icon and choose to remove it.

I'm pretty sure that is new. When 57 released it was possible to remove it from the address bar but not from the context menu of the address bar.

Since you trivially remove it, I don't see the big deal.

I notice my parents using the built-in Reader Mode and PDF reader. Those could've been extensions too, but I don't know who that services.

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