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The saddest thing I see in these comments are always people hating on some minor thing like Pocket or something and who has decided to go with Chrome instead :-/

I mean I get the frustration but this is "cutting off the nose to spite the face"-level logic IMO.

BTW: There was always something. Back in the day I think people hated on awesombar and used that as an excuse to stay with IE6 ;-)

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> The saddest thing I see in these comments are always people hating on some minor thing like Pocket or something and who has decided to go with Chrome instead :-/

What should people do? Quietly put up with Firefox being hostile to them simply because it's Firefox?

Firefox has to pay its own way by being good. It can't just assume user blind loyalty because they think they're the good guys.

Then the same people should not complain when they get ChromeOS Platform instead of the Web.

> Quietly put up with Firefox being hostile to them simply because it's Firefox?

That's not what I've been suggesting.

My suggestion is to not go to the even more problematic competitor.

I think I’ve missed something here: how is Pocket user-hostile?

Hostile is way too strong a word. Maybe user unfriendly since it is is built-in to the browser instead of an extension?

But again, if you don't like it, don't use it. You don't have to go to Chrome where you have much worse user-hostile crap hidden under the hood.

A week ago I've experienced a fresh-off-the-shelf PC without uBlock Origin. That was some scary five minutes, not gonna lie. I can't imagine using my Android phone without Firefox with uBlock.

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