How do I get rid of pocket for firefox? [closed]

Some of us care very deeply about privacy and security. Firefox's new tool called Pocket is not to my liking.

Pocket relies on a proprietary solution that has a different Privacy Policy than FF. The company is VC funded and the Privacy Policy states that "...all your data are belong to us and also to whomever we sell out to".

So, how do I eliminate Pocket as permanently as possible?

2 Answers

Do the following from within Firefox itself:

• go to the address bar
• type about:config
• Press Enter
• accept the risks
• type in the search bar: extensions.pocket.enabled
• toggle the matching setting from true to false with a double-click

sudo crontab -e

...and the following entry:

30 2 * * * rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox/browser/features/

So remove that file every single day at 0230 hrs.

If this causes firefox to malfunction in any way, export everything and switch browsers permanently.

Something else you could try is using the touch command to touch that file name and then eliminate all permissions to it. That way it will be really hard to re-create although the system may still be able to do so. We used a similar technique to eliminate IE from Microsoft back when they were trying to force us to use that.