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Not being shown stories recommended by Pocket

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Andrew Hancock
Andrew Hancock
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On my work laptop, I disabled "Recommended by Pocket" to avoid distractions.

On my personal laptop, that setting is already enabled. But I never see any stories recommended by pocket when I open a new tab. What can I do about this?

On my work laptop, I disabled "Recommended by Pocket" to avoid distractions. On my personal laptop, that setting is already enabled. But I never see any stories recommended by pocket when I open a new tab. What can I do about this?

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Terry
Terry
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You may need to read this.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pocket-firefox-account-migration

Andrew Hancock
Andrew Hancock Question owner
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Thanks, Terry. I was wondering whether you can help clear something up. I've never heard of a Pocket account before. Why would I need to sort a non-existent Pocket account on one laptop but not another? On neither laptop do I log into FireFox/Mozilla, either.

zeroknight
zeroknight
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"Recommended by Pocket" is limited to certain regions. Go to about:config in the address bar and change browser.search.region to US then restart the browser.

Andrew Hancock
Andrew Hancock Question owner
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Thanks for the suggestion, zeroknight, but it doesn't look like browser.search.region is the problem. It is set to CA on both the laptop that works and the one that doesn't.

Terry
Terry
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Try searching about:config for pocket and make sure all values are default.

zeroknight
zeroknight
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Make sure browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories is set to true.

If you are signed into your account on both computers, you can stop this setting from syncing by changing services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories to false.