• FireWire400@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Pocket was always among the first things I disabled when setting up Firefox and apparently, I wasn’t the only one doing that… I’m sure it had its users but I always found normal bookmarks to be more convenient.

    Never even heard of Fakespot, though.

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      19 days ago

      Bookmarks and services like Pocket are for different things. Bookmarks are for websites you come back to often. Pocket and other services like it are for saving links to stuff you want to remember and/or come back to once or a few times. Bookmarks are not made for having thousands of, while “read later” services are for saving anything and easily have hundreds, thousands, even tens or hundreds of thousands of things saved.

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      19 days ago

      Fakespot was kinda nice, whenever I looked at something on amazon I’d get a sidebar showing which reviews are real and summarizing them. It’s actually pretty useful. Definitely will not miss Pocket.

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      19 days ago

      OMG I JUST started using Pocket because my work banned Firefox and made us all switch to Edge!!

      Now how am I going to sync bookmarks and pages I want to read later on my personal devices??

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        19 days ago

        I generate a QR code and scan it with my phone. Don’t sync work and personal devices.

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        19 days ago

        I’d be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn’t require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..

        Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.

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          13 days ago

          They literally have control of and log every app that’s installed and will bug you until you uninstall it.

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            13 days ago

            Unless they’re doing app signing or binary examination, some of the methods to “log every app” literally look for an executable name. Renaming “firefox.exe” to “explorer.exe” (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.

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              10 days ago

              Yeah, I don’t know how they’re doing it. They’re using some “zero trust” system. It’s beyond me.