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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#151

There are a ton of bookmarking software, and good, and self-hosted. - karakeep - grimoire - omnivore - wallabag - linkwarden I myself use RSS reader / bookmark manager that I wrote [1]. Everything is open source. Even data [2] [3]. Links [1] https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive [2] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database [3] https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database

omnivore got acquired, they shut down: https://web.archive.org/web/20250503155629/https://blog.omni...

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#152

I 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…

> every other browser

You can just say Chromium

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#153

I've never used Pocket, so I can't comment on feature parity, but for people looking for an alternative I've been using Instapaper for years and have been very happy with it. The founders recently bought it back from Pinterest and have been making steady improvements.

Pinterest sold it in 2018. The founder is Marco Arment, he's not the one who bought it back.

But yes, instapaper is still alive.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-is-leaving-pint...

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#154

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 obv…

I'm using the free version of Matter, and it seems like a good improvement over Pocket. It managed to import most of my Pocket saves too.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#155

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 obv…

I can't recommend Raindrop enough if you're looking for alternatives

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#156
post #98

They 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.

It's significantly less than the ceo salary, albeit the yearly one.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#158

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 obv…

I have been paying for readwise for about a year and a half now. I was a pocket subscriber for years before they got bought out by Firefox. All that said, I wouldn't call myself an advanced user of either (tag a lot less than I would like, want to revisit more than I do, etc.).

I am reasonably satisfied with read wise as a replacement/upgrade to pocket and will continue to pay for it for the time being. My least favorite part is it needs 2 apps/extensions for full functionality (readwise and reader). It works but feels clunkier to me than it needs to be.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#159
(shameless plug)

I didn’t like Pocket, so I worked on my own link archiver years ago [0].

UI inspired by HN, a list of links you saved + tags filtering. Plain and simple, less features but does the job for me. I’m actually looking for users to try it out as I have not yet publicized it that much.

[0]: https://ulry.app

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

#160

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

Obsidian Web Clipper is available on all mobile browsers that support extensions including Safari, Firefox, and some forks of Chrome
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