Can we get a list going of the best substitutes and the pros/cons? Thanks.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#262I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…
Reading pro-Pocket comments is so surreal. I never really paid any attention to Pocket and never used it but 100% of the comments I ever saw were about how it was some invasion of privacy tool that was evidence of corruption in Mozilla selling your data to 3rd parties or something. Now it's dead and ... everyone here is mourning its passing. Guess I was a successful mark for anti-Mozilla FUD tactics.
My feelings are 30% annoyed (because I still have some data in there), 70% hopeful that a thoroughly mediocre contender is going a way and some more consolidation in this market might finally create critical mass for and focus on some open-source, data-exportable solution in the way Omnivore unfortunately couldn't.
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#263We have been working on Full Sort for a while now. Lots of features to be a contender but not bloated either. Take a look at https://fullsort.com.
Demo without signup. Upon signup the service is free. Not mining your data either.
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#264I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…
Reading pro-Pocket comments is so surreal. I never really paid any attention to Pocket and never used it but 100% of the comments I ever saw were about how it was some invasion of privacy tool that was evidence of corruption in Mozilla selling your data to 3rd parties or something. Now it's dead and ... everyone here is mourning its passing. Guess I was a successful mark for anti-Mozilla FUD tactics.
I loved it when it was called read-it-later and was a standalone add-on. Requiring a Mozilla account made me stop using it.
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#265I 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~~ useful to me.
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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#266I abandoned Pocket a while ago. I believe the offline mode was unreliable. Instapaper has been a really good replacement for me. My use case is to queue up articles to read on my iPad without distractions.
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#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Safari exists, and is quite popular.
Safari is the only reason we don't rename (yet) Web as ChromeOS development platform. Thanks everyone, especially all those Electron crap apps.
I think once Apple is forced to allow alternative browsers on the iPhone and iPad, Chrome/Chromium will have won the browser wars.
At least Google is a better steward of their browser than Microsoft was with IE6.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading pro-Pocket comments is so surreal. I never really paid any attention to Pocket and never used it but 100% of the comments I ever saw were about how it was some invasion of privacy tool that was evidence of corruption in Mozilla selling your data to 3rd parties or something. Now it's dead and ... everyone here is mourning its passing. Guess I was a successful mark for anti-Mozilla FUD tactics.
I used Pocket since it was called Read-it-Later back in 2011/2010. It was one of the first things I'd install onto every device I owned. I used it until their dreadful redesign in 2023. I got a _lot_ of use out of Pocket.
I've also used it for several years, but it really was never great compared to anything else in this space and seemingly stopped any feature development years ago.
The biggest problem for me was that they just completely gave up on paywalls, at a time when viable workarounds finally became widely available (e.g. iOS share sheet extensions being able to inject JavaScript into Safari to collect the content, which is what many alternatives do). Completely useless for reading paid news.
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#269Pocket was always completely incompatible with Mozilla/Firefox, and is at this point hopelessly outdated compared to all competitors. I really don't understand what they were thinking.
Just running a hosted version of the excellent and open source (both server and client) Omnivore would be an amazing service to the open web and for data archiving/portability, but I'm not holding my breath.
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#270The think I liked about pocket was the integration with my Kobo ebook reader. I could browse the web on my phone or laptop and "add to pocket" for later, then could fire up my ereader and read the articles formatted nicely on my epaper screen. Would be nice if Kobo supported some other service, but a bit of a stretch to imagine they'd support something self hosted or an open standard for such things
Kobo supports ReadWise I think.