(Firefox 81+) Add option to disable sponsored pocket content

Open Youngblood50 opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Since Firefox 81 there is a new option which shows sponsored content between the pocket articles on the new tab page.

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored = true/false (default is true)

Nov 13 '20 21:11 Youngblood50

I wonder how many people allow pocket when using the generator.

I guess we can add this to the choice box here: https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker/blob/master/settings/pocket.json

or here: https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker/blob/master/settings/newtabpage.json

I wonder if it is obvious to users, which want to configure that new tab page, that they should also configure pocket.

Nov 13 '20 22:11 allo-

So I did a little bit of testing and turns out that this prefs.js entry is pretty old. I tested on Firefox 76.0 and it was there in about:config, but it didn't do anytrhing. Since Firefox 81.0 this entry controls the sponsored content.

Nov 14 '20 11:11 Youngblood50