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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
The first thing I do on a fresh install of firefox is disable pocket.
anyone know good alternative to pocket?
No, but a good option that still works:
This is actually amazing!
I use RSS so this will integrate fantastically
Thank you!
As someone who has never used an RSS reader, any suggestions?
Realistically probably feedly. I don't use it but it's a reasonably good service.
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!
I love Umibo, turns your new tab screen into a persistent full tab bookmark manager with a pretty background
I've never allowed pocket to be enabled long enough to even see what it looks like, lol.
Well, it's advertising, so they will systematically and programmatically identify whatever imagery will gain your attention (which this has)
Are they watching me through my camera to see where my eyes are looking? It's not like I ever click on ads lol
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.
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
Well whatever they did, it got me to disable sponsored content lol
hustle culture protip: you can pay off rent this month by selling your soul to moloch!
Grind your soul to dust for profit!
TIL there are folks who don't immediately turn pocket off on a fresh install...
Anyway, yeah, that pic is pretty weird
In our Schools, Firefox is constantly reset on our profile but Chrome not. Its absolute bullshit
looks like an accurate depiction of the effects poverty has on the human brain
Best Librewolf advertisement
It would be if there wasn't a very simple way to completely disable pocket
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
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.
I still like the idea of forks existing though, more variety is always good (I say, typing this from FF...)
What others are worth changing?
Have you tried simply disabling pocket?
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
Maybe if we didn't spend all our money on... whatever this is, money wouldn't be so tight.
Pocket has been techbro nightmare shit for years. I always disable it the moment I can.
Some ai generated bullshit
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
So advertising, then.
yea i'll disable it when it comes to my country
