Just to chime in my 2 cents here:

1) Click on the Pocket button -> Remove from Toolbar. Now you don't 
have it in your GUI anymore. This is preferred way over
usingabout:config. All the associated menu items (Bookmarks menu and
Context Menu)  won't show up anymore. There is no interaction with
Pocket anymore since  all the interaction is only loaded when clicking
on the icon.

2) Firefox has a preferencein about:config which specifies the API 
endpoint: browser.pocket.api . If somebody has a compatible API, feel 
free to promote that as alternative. Yes, it needs to be compatible 
though. If you think that the user should have other alternatives as a 
choice: feel free to propose a patch adding the "choice" in a menu and 
implement the alternative. A bonus point here for getting the 
alternative to provide a login for Firefox Accounts as well.

3) There is no money involved in this as far as I can know from the
different blog posts by Mozilla.

Of course this is only my knowledge and could be wrong. On the other 
hand I don't think just saying Mozilla should remove it without 
providing any alternatives doesn't lead this discussion anywhere. 
According to Mozilla studies have shown that people want to have a
"Read  Later" list. Mozilla might continue their own implementation, but
completing that feature takes some time.Maybe somebody could pick up the
work that has already  been done there and improve it so it works? Of
course there is no  guarantee that Mozilla would pick up a working
"Reader List"  implementation which works with Sync, but it could be
worth a try?

And a last note: Mozilla management is reading this list so I believe
we  don't need to spam this list with non-informative and only "me 
too"-like comments. So please keep keep good input coming and express 
your support with a vote on 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126(but please don't 
comment there to not spam people either). You can find the "vote"
button  in the left column.

Cheers,
Michael

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