Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot • Hacker News Board

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by brycewray » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

I had submitted the Mozilla blog post about this and Fakespot (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063930) but this submission seems to have received the traction. I added a comment to my submission pointing here.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

I'm strangely sad about this, even though this became yet another place for my bookmarks to go to die.

did anyone ever offer a method of detecting link rot in bookmarks automagically? i gave up on using bookmarks a very long time ago after finding so many links no longer working.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by hrnnnnnn » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

I use pocket all the time to save articles to read on my kobo, which has a pretty good first-party integration in the OS.

I wonder what Rakuten are going to do.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by acjohnson55 » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

foray1010 wrote: post #8

Seems Obsidian Web Clipper is a good alternative, it can save as markdown so you own the data offline. Anyone tried it? What is your experience?

I haven't tried it, but I have used Notion Web Clipper. It works, but the experience is nowhere near the same.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by _tqr3 » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

I used Pocket until they remove the ability to save page as offline (moved to premium tier afak) and also shoving sponsored content here and there.

I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than ~~useless~~ useful to me.

[1]Raindrop.io

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by candiddevmike » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

They bought pocket for at least 5 million, what a waste of money.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by _def » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

> Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights.

boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by testfrequency » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

Super bummed about this.

I know a surprising number of high profile CEOs and founders who live by Pocket, really has just been quietly reliable and simple way to reserve content for later.

Despite there being so many other $apps that can fill the gap here, none of them seem to be as clean and straightforward as Pocket has been for me.

Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obvious migration path, but since my landlord is kicking me out, maybe it’s time I move to a more robust solution.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by dralley » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

candiddevmike wrote: post #17

They bought pocket for at least 5 million, what a waste of money.

Pocket was revenue positive for a while, they probably still made money on it.