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Mozilla hasn't a leg to stand on. And it can eat it regarding Pocket and new 'enabled' ad related settings, when last I changed anything, was to disable them all. Sneaky, annoying, every company does it. It makes me hate my computer. I look at the software trying to trick me and I resent it.

I resent computing when these companies think they know better than what I want.

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I truly can’t figure out the rationale behind the idea that Mozilla is doing the same bad stuff as Microsoft and Google.

Pocket and the other related stuff I don’t want is so easy to disable.

And unlike Google, Firefox ships with reasonable web privacy defaults and doesn’t stoop to nerfing content blockers.

I swear, people expect Mozilla to be perfect to the point of wishing them out of business when they’re basically our last hope for a non-commercial web browser and engine. Nothing they are doing is anywhere near the same realm of sneaky or annoying in comparison.

There is more to computing than these companies.

After I switched to NetBSD then I was able to avoid those companies. It's a UNIX-like OS that comes with everything disabled. It's up to the user to decide what to enable/install.

Before I ditched Windows/Mac operating systems permanently many years ago I resented computing, too. This was before "smartphones".

I believe we should care about privacy and education of general public, instead of building silos for geeks. One may use NetBSD, but their family members, friends, coworkers, neighbors may not.

The general public don't give a shit about privacy. They're very happy to give up all their data to multi billion companies.

FOSS can't hope to compete with that kind of money.

After I first used a VAX and experienced UNIX, I did not want to use PCs with Microsoft/Apple operating systems again. I wanted UNIX on the PC. It took a while but eventually I got it. No more Microsoft/Apple BS.

I am a family member, friend, coworker, neighbour and member of the general public. I may use a UNIX-like OS that I can compile myself instead of one controlled by Microsoft/Apple OS.

Pocket has been a built-in Mozilla-owned Firefox feature for 7 years now. You're resenting a one optional button.

I worked at Mozilla for 5 years. It’s a wonderful company with kind and motivated people. But your concerns are totally valid, unfortunately…

It has stalled, Mann, if only somebody had warned us.

I see what you did there

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