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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by MogwaiAllOnYou »

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?

It isn't available on mobile AFAIK, which is like my primary use for pocket etc., saving links to later read on my laptop

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by packetlost »

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 use it pretty extensively. Aside from being a pretty poor experience on mobile (it straight up can't be used on iOS at all, works ok on Android), it's the best web clipper I've used.

I really wish they would integrate the functionality into Obsidian itself, though I think there are technical limitations with it.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by asadotzler »

~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla's wasted effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla "scam" and now that it's being removed, ~90% of the comments are "sad" and "I used it a lot."

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by micimize »

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?

The complainers were FF users forced to deal with bloat they didn't use, those who are sad here are pocket users. They're just different people. Though, even those who didn't like the bundling of the extension probably didn't actively want the service to fail.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by Buxato »

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.

I trust none of that ones, only Google for one of my emails and my Android phone. The track of abandoned services of Mozilla is astonishing.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by altairprime »

brycewray wrote: post #12

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.

Email the mods about this and they can cleanup and merge the dupes.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by gobblegobble2 »

hrnnnnnn wrote: post #14

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.

Same and it's my favourite Kobo feature. I hope Mozilla releases Pocket source code for people willing to self-host it. Kobos are highly hackable and I'm sure the community will find a way to change getpocket.com domain in the built-in Pocket app, even if Rakuten chooses not to provide this option.
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