Annoying, I used this. It seems self-hosted wallabag might be the way to go.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#92Damn, this one really hurts. I've been a massive user since Read It Later. I used to get year-in-review emails telling me I was in the top 1% of users. For a period of several years, I read an astounding amount via Pocket. It is very tightly intertwined with my time on HN, as most headlines I'm interested in get immediately saved to Pocket. My usage dropped a lot when I stopped commuting via the subway (where offline…
Your experience and mine is almost exactly the same, down to the subway being the place where I used Pocket the most.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#93Are they going to refund money to Premium users who recently subscribed or renewed? EDIT: As pointed out below, it's covered in the link. "On July 8, 2025, Annual subscriptions will be cancelled and Annual users will receive a prorated refund automatically to the original payment method."
That is covered in the link.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#94I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for re…
missing features at this point is laudable.
most features are useless design clutter (view transition being the poster child) or privacy nightmares pushed by google for their ad business (all the way back to full url referr to floc)
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#95I 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
> I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than useless to me. Low bar to hit.
Oops a typo.
Adding to that, all i want is a download current page to read offline, sort of like pdf (embedded image and styles) but on reading mode.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#96Damn, this one really hurts. I've been a massive user since Read It Later. I used to get year-in-review emails telling me I was in the top 1% of users. For a period of several years, I read an astounding amount via Pocket. It is very tightly intertwined with my time on HN, as most headlines I'm interested in get immediately saved to Pocket. My usage dropped a lot when I stopped commuting via the subway (where offline…
given mozilla makes a fantastic email client - thunderbird - you would think they would have made pocket multimedia but alas
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#97> 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.
Downthemall might help with downloading all those links, depending on what they are.
I never used Pocket but was a long time user of Instapaper before moving to Readwise Reader. My experience has been that many links, other than the most recent ones, are dead.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#98They bought pocket for at least 5 million, what a waste of money.
Compared to the other ways Mozilla has set money on fire while taking its eye off the ball, $5 million is immaterial really.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#99> 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.
anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#100I wonder if they’d be willing to sell it to the right group of folks. I’d love to have a community owned read it later service. Otherwise, we’re all on a never ending treadmill from one service to the next.