Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 9, 2015 @05:25AM from the yelling-on-the-internet dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Last week, Mozilla updated Firefox to add Pocket integration — software that lets you save web articles to read later. Over the weekend, some Firefox users began to voice their displeasure over the move on public forums like Bugzilla, Google Groups, and Hacker News. The complaints center around Pocket being a proprietary third-party service, which already exists as an add-on, and is not a required component for a browser. Integrating Pocket directly into Firefox means it cannot be removed, only disabled. In response, Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration and the integration code is open source.

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Re:Oh mozilla by Ravaldy · 2015-06-09 05:49 · Score: 1, Troll

Fact is that those who like it won't complain so you only hear those with a negative opinion about it.
In my experience most companies do not implement features for fun. They do it because it's feedback they received from a large number of users. The fact that it can be disabled pretty much closes the case in my opinion but I guess some purist fanatics will complain.