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mooglylast Wednesday at 1:31 AM1 replyview on HN

> Sure, living with the nuisance of the advertising and UI clutter is an option

    about:config<enter>
    extensions.pocket.enabled
set to `false`.

That's how hard that used to be.


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wtallislast Wednesday at 2:11 AM

Anything requiring messing with about:config is an unreasonable way to treat non-technical users. And the point I've already made that you're ignoring is that the complexity of the workaround is not the problem—the necessity of taking action to disable Pocket is what was most concerning about what Mozilla did.

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