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For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
What the hell is "the best of Pocket's content" ? I switched to FireFox to avoid stuff like this.
> The Block Autoplay feature is enhanced to give users the option to block any video that automatically starts playing, not just those that automatically play with sound. Good. I know a news website that was on purpose disabling sound on videos to prevent that. So not only does it autoplay, you need to click to unmute anyway to actually hear it! Why do news websites want to shove autoplaying videos on people's throat…
Advertising metrics.
> And why do news websites even care about doing shoving it to the small percentage of people who actually bother to disable autoplay in their browser?
I believe autoplay is off by default on mobile, so it's a significant market.
I've been using the Firefox 69 beta since it came out, and with auto-playing audio and video set to blocked, some sites still somehow manage to auto-start muted videos. Is this a bug I should report, or is there some exception that websites are taking advantage of (like starting the video via an event handler like onscroll)?
maybe it should be blocked by default, then one can "whitelist" domain. My fingers are itching to ban some sites... such as cnn.com, dailymailco.uk
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
To disable it: Settings, General, Home, Top Sites, disable "Recommended by Pocket".
The font rendering on the mozilla website is absolutely horrific (Firefox 68/Windows 7): https://i.imgur.com/JMpq9Xe.png
These settings (in about:config) makes font rendering look near identical to Chrome for me: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast = 0 gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 5 gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families = ""
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
I don't see anyone complaining that Safari has a built-in Reader feature. Safari even has "Siri Suggestions" almost identical to this Firefox experiment. Pocket has been acquired by Mozilla, so it's not a 3rd party feature any more. It's really no different. It seems that some people are just used to hating Pocket as if it was some kind of tradition.
EDIT: Here's a screenshot of the feature specifically that people dislike these days: https://imgur.com/a/p2rD4AY
While it can be disabled, it can be said that people are a bit annoyed that the browser that is "Privacy Focused" is shoving ads down your throat. While we as technical users can figure out how to disable it easily (in the preferences), the less technically inclined might not know that they can be disabled.
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
I'm even OK with this feature, just not with the we're shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of... drone-speak T_T
Instead, they prioritize controversial integration into the browser itself.
For our users in the US or using the en-US browser, we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content. Uhmmm...
I'm even OK with this feature, just not with the we're shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of... drone-speak T_T
It didn't make it to the developer notes, but Firefox 69 should be the first one to ship with unhandledrejection event on by default[0] - I'm so looking forward to being able to catch promises and do proper error handling on them in Firefox without having to jump through hoops [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/unha...
I see it here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...