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Look at it! What is that? It looks kind of like a cross section of a human, kind of, except the eyes are pools of blackened fire and the brain is sending electrical pulses out to... are those Jupiters? Why? Why??? This is absolute nightmare shit lol

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first thing I do on a fresh install of firefox is disable pocket.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

anyone know good alternative to pocket?

[–] CluckN 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having a purse allows even more storage

[–] kite 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would not recommend. That's how you end up with lopsided shoulders and a bad back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only that was the only way to end up this way... (for the back at least).

[–] KelsonV 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A backpack solves both problems!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't confirm, now I have two lopsided shoulders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A frontpack and a backpack!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, but a good option that still works:

  • Disable pocket from the FF home page.
  • Get your personalised RSS link from your pocket profile
  • Add it to RSS reader of choice
  • Click pocket button on article
  • Read in RSS reader
  • Never see sponsored crap
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is actually amazing!

I use RSS so this will integrate fantastically

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who has never used an RSS reader, any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Realistically probably feedly. I don't use it but it's a reasonably good service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I haven't tried it yet but I've heard good things about omnivore

I also just found shiori

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried omnivore for a bit because it’s pretty clean and seems to integrate well with other apps like Obsidian, Logseq, etc. but I found it to be a little too sparse. I’m currently using raindrop.ion and that’s hitting the sweet spot for me. I think a big part of it is that omnivore is geared strongly toward heavy readers, so as a designer I save a lot of things for viewing more than reading, and more of an archive for projects and thoughts than something to catch up with. And I’ve got my reading list, movie list, software list, and all sorts of others in there that it’s closer to a personal Pinterest than a read it later app.

It is a really nice app though so if someone’s in the market for a reading-first definitely check it out! I’m personally really digging my personal knowledge archive with raindrop.ion and think it’s worth checking out too!

[–] KelsonV 3 points 1 year ago

Assuming you mean the save-to-read-later functionality, I hear good things about Wallabag. You can even self-host it if you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love Umibo, turns your new tab screen into a persistent full tab bookmark manager with a pretty background

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I've never allowed pocket to be enabled long enough to even see what it looks like, lol.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it's advertising, so they will systematically and programmatically identify whatever imagery will gain your attention (which this has)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they watching me through my camera to see where my eyes are looking? It's not like I ever click on ads lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know how Firefox does it for Pocket, but you're overcomplicating it.

Just have to track what stays on your screen longer. They could also account for where your attention likely is on the visible screen based off what, if anything, you are interacting with (menus etc).

If you scroll past something in a second, but leave something else on your screen roughly in the middle without scrolling past it or moving to a menu for 3 seconds then it's pretty obvious which caught your attention.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This! JavaScript also supports hoverover and many other cursor events besides mere clicking, and I (an adtech engineer, now reformed) collected those types of events in our sdk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well whatever they did, it got me to disable sponsored content lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rare programmer W

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if we didn't spend all our money on... whatever this is, money wouldn't be so tight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can write that article.

Here are 3 things we could totally stop wasting money on, try it for yourself!

  1. Avocado Toast

  2. Fancy lattes

  3. Lamborghini Revueltos

I should apply to Buzzfeed this weekend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's actually worse than that. It's a link to a service from Capital One that tries to help you find better deals online, a link to one of those lone-repayment services, and a link to a new car insurance company.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL there are folks who don't immediately turn pocket off on a fresh install...

Anyway, yeah, that pic is pretty weird

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In our Schools, Firefox is constantly reset on our profile but Chrome not. Its absolute bullshit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried simply disabling pocket?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I kinda liked the recommendations so I didn't, but looking in settings you can turn off sponsored shit which means I never need to see the Penny Horror meat monster again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best Librewolf advertisement

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be if there wasn't a very simple way to completely disable pocket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but if you count that on top of the other settings worth changing then it adds up. That said, I still use Firefox so I'm not even including myself lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep seeing this mentioned. There's no reason to use Libre or Water or any other fork of FF if you realize you can pretty much make FF do whatever the hell you want. Then you get all the current updates and security patches as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I still like the idea of forks existing though, more variety is always good (I say, typing this from FF...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What others are worth changing?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Some ai generated bullshit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recommended by Pocket stories on the New Tab page is a feature currently available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, Italy, France and Spain. We're working to bring it to other countries.

i've never seen it before, thanks for the tip

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

yea i'll disable it when it comes to my country

[–] really 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is pennyhoarder? I see their articles everywhere. It’s crazy how they have managed to insert themselves so completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a perfect example of their ads working.