Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot • Hacker News Board

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by dripton » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:32 PM UTC

mouse_ wrote: post #4

One less thing to disable and hide on every new installation is a win.

Check out LibreWolf and see if its defaults come closer to what you want. For me, it's better. I still have to modify a few settings, but not nearly as many as with vanilla Firefox.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kstrauser » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:33 PM UTC

sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

There are lots of people with different opinions on the same subject, and not all of them speak up in the same conversations.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by aspenmayer » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

Replying to deleted comment by jsheard:

> Mozilla never did reveal how much they paid for Pocket, did they?

They raised a series B for $5M if that helps ballpark it for you.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by advisedwang » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

Some people hated pocket, and would complain about it. Different people liked pocket and are commenting here.

The community has people with different viewpoints, and you are seeing different people's comments on different stories (either because different people are commenting or because different comments are getting voted to be visible).

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by _def » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

Well, crap. I've had a Pocket account for more than ten years. It's a key feature on my Kobo devices, to boot.

I hope Kobo manages to find some alternative provider for similar functionality, rather than just dropping it altogether.

EDIT: Oh, and worth noting that this product will officially die before Mozilla fulfills its promise to open source it, back when they acquired Pocket. Thanks, guys.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ummonk » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

chimeracoder wrote: post #22

_def wrote: post #18

> 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.

> and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again. Who will you trust? Google? Apple? Microsoft? It's not like any of the other behemoths have a better track record when it comes to long-term maintenance and availability of hosted consumer products. If anything, Mozilla actually has the best track record out of them all when it comes to long-term offerings.

What hosted products has Apple dropped? iCloud might stop supporting old devices but that doesn’t stop you from keeping the data on device or accessing via a new device.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by waschl » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

Any good alternatives which can import my pocket data?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kirubakaran » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

I'd love for everyone to move to https://histre.com/ :-) (which I built)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by Y_Y » Thu, May 22, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

sureste wrote: post #25

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

I think it's consistent to be annoyed that they went and bought something and shoved it into everyone's browser, but also that they're taking away a service that people have come to depend on.