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Good point. But Pocket isn't harmful, especially if you don't use it. In the worst case, it makes the Firefox installer a few kb larger, that's about it.


The same could be said of the RSS support.


True. The big difference is that users use Pocket but didn't use RSS.


A lot of people have a really strong negative perception of pocket. That should be enough to be able to remove it.


Meaning the nontechnical set of users that don't go out of their way to disable telemetry, at least...


If you disable telemetry, Mozilla won't know about you. If you want Mozilla to cater for you, don't disable telemetry?


Telemetry should never be enabled by default without consent. Its a dark pattern.


It leaks information about my browsing history.




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