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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by 28304283409234 »

major505 wrote: post #247
segphault wrote: post #71

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…

Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

I switched to Vivaldi after 23 years of Mozilla. Could not be happier.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by 0x0 »

thayne wrote: post #180
zymhan wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safari exists, and is quite popular.

Safari only exist on Apple devices, and generally had even less features than Firefox.

> Safari only exist on Apple devices

Webkit, at least, builds on a lot more platforms than you think. Take a look at https://build.webkit.org/#/builders

I'm seeing at least three other MAJOR platforms:

  • GTK-Linux-64-bit-Release-Build
  • PlayStation-Release-Build
  • Windows-64-bit-Release-Build

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by rossant »

I started using Pocket in 2012 and have used it ever since (though I’ll obviously have to stop now). It was a great way to save interesting articles I didn’t have time to read right away. Naturally, I rarely got around to actually reading them, and the backlog kept growing. I just exported my data and found 13,000 unread articles out of a total of 34,000.

I can’t help but picture the Distracted Boyfriend meme, "reading my saved articles" vs "discovering new cool articles online to add to the ever-growing Pocket backlog, never to be read."

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by al_borland »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #334
al_borland wrote: post #289

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Apple also has a read later service built into Safari. It’s not the most feature rich, but it has existed for several years now. I’d be curious on the stats of these services. Myself, I save a lot of things with good intentions and then never go back to actually read anything later. For a stand alone service, this is the worst. I send them data to store, then never do anything with it. I have to imagine this is quite…

I have a read later “service” called keeping a couple hundred tabs open at once (enabled with Sidebury vertical tabs and their panels). Works great for me.

I have 134 tabs open on my phone right now. Every few months I get fed up enough and close them all, or maybe all but 3.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by fuzztester »

Lutger wrote: post #319
mvdtnz wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that change the basic facts from the end users' perspective?

It doesn't, but the sentence referred to wasn't really aimed at them. I mean, Mozilla could ditch its engine and adopt chromium in order to really focus on advertising, and then it would also support said features from an end users perspective! Somehow I have a feeling that won't earn Mozilla praise. For all its flaws, Mozilla is actually the ONLY other company building a browser engine. When its gone, there will bas…

what happened to opera?

i used it a good amount earlier, when it was relatively new, but then some issues happened, which I don't remember clearly, then i stopped tracking it.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by Henchman21 »

major505 wrote: post #247
segphault wrote: post #71

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…

Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects. Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

All my hopes are with Ladybird now

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

criddell wrote: post #267
pjmlp wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>At least Google is a better steward of their browser than Microsoft was with IE6.

The only lesson Google took from the Microsoft browser monopoly was "make sure the browser doesn't suck ass". So, Chromium will continue to be technically competent, enough that they can lull people to sleep and mine their personal data in ways that should horrify us all. Whatever else Microsoft was, it wasn't a gigantic advertising company that wants to spam us with borderline-scam sales efforts.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kstrauser »

Lutger wrote: post #319
mvdtnz wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does that change the basic facts from the end users' perspective?

It doesn't, but the sentence referred to wasn't really aimed at them. I mean, Mozilla could ditch its engine and adopt chromium in order to really focus on advertising, and then it would also support said features from an end users perspective! Somehow I have a feeling that won't earn Mozilla praise. For all its flaws, Mozilla is actually the ONLY other company building a browser engine. When its gone, there will bas…

Have you forgotten Apple and WebKit?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ewoodrich »

testfrequency wrote: post #19

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 pay for Readwise Reader and it's pretty great, although I have been noticing issues extracting the full text on certain sites. It sometimes just seems to give up and the extract contains an empty block and is 1/10 of the expected length. A bit frustrating since that's my main use case.
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