Firefox Pocket Integration

Discussions focus on Mozilla's acquisition and integration of Pocket into Firefox, including user complaints about its recommended content, privacy tracking concerns, and instructions on how to disable it.

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caiob Aug 11, 2020 View on HN

Why does Mozilla insist on Pocket?

manigandham Jul 6, 2020 View on HN

Mozilla owns Pocket. Why wouldn’t they include their own service in the browser?

zacharybk Nov 23, 2021 View on HN

Firefox fixed this for you. They bought pocket and turned it into a paid product.https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...

nnethercote Sep 30, 2017 View on HN

Mozilla acquire Pocket a while back. That might address your concerns, depending on what those concerns are.

adontz Dec 6, 2018 View on HN

Firefox added Pocket, and kind of nobody wanted it. So it happens in FF too.

thawaway1837 Feb 11, 2020 View on HN

You know they own Pocket right?Pocket is basically their version of Read Later, etc...And it’s completely optional whether you want to use it or not. So I’m not sure I understand this complaint.Mozilla’s first integration of Pocket was poorly done, and rightfully raised complaints. But since they have purchased it, a lot of those complaints have been resolved.

pnathan Aug 4, 2018 View on HN

installed firefox recently and it's showing me recommended content from Pocket.bro not cool. I don't want your backend recommendation engine tracking what I'm doing.(online or off)(and, yes, I disabled it, as well rewired the pocket-relevant urls to example.com)

sp332 Dec 15, 2017 View on HN

Firefox bought Pocket. So it's a first-party feature.

4ndrewl May 23, 2025 View on HN

Why can't Mozilla open source Pocket?

manquer Apr 4, 2022 View on HN

Mozilla acquired pocket in 2017. Probably one of the reasons they push it heavily.https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...