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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by encom »

criddell wrote: post #327
no_wizard wrote: post #295

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The real death knell is that Microsoft decided not to go with Mozilla in building the relaunched version of Edge. That would have been a very fruitful relationship, but they couldn't make it work. My understanding is - albeit its second hand - that they really didn't want to simply jump to Chromium, but Firefox proved far more complicated to do what they wanted to do. Ultimately, Microsoft Edge went from a pretty goo…

Microsoft was (and is) interested in Electron. They used it for lots of stuff like MS Teams (which is now using their WebView2 control), VSCode, Outlook, and their Graph toolkit.

Outlook is Electron slop now? Jesus christ.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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lttlrck wrote: post #352
bayindirh wrote: post #287

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I have another theory, actually. I'm also a very old user, since the first days of the service, and I don't know how many saves I have it inside (will see when my export arrives). The latest iteration's search was abysmal , and I normally refrain from using strong words. It failed to find exact matches from titles, the words or excerpts I know that exist in the article I'm searching for, and as a result, it became a…

What's your other theory? ;-)

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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by lawrencejgd »

fuzztester wrote: post #346
Lutger wrote: post #319

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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.

It's owned by a chinese company and uses Chromium

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by xeromal »

Can someone explain what this means?

>Focusing on what powers better browsing We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved,

Did Fakespot own pocket? I still use fakespot as an additional marker in my research of purchases.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kbrosnan »

doubled112 wrote: post #274
major505 wrote: post #247

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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.

And Thunderbird?

It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by skrtskrt »

thesuitonym wrote: post #354
skrtskrt wrote: post #189

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Kagi is starting to build their Orion browser which is WebKit-based for Linux as of this year. I never do anything close enough to the browser engine to know, but apparently devs like WebKit a lot?

Since when? I don't see any mention on the blog, and the FAQ still says they're not targeting anything other than MacOS. https://help.kagi.com/orion/faq/faq.html#other_os_support

It was officially announced late February/early March I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302073

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kepano »

perdomon wrote: post #339
yunesj wrote: post #332

I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer). Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-later app, but almost!

Obsidian is phenomenal. I only wish it were open source so I could self-host it. Sometimes I worry that they'd sell my notes data to advertisers.

Obsidian cannot access your notes even if you use the Sync service (it's end-to-end encrypted)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by monooso »

pratio wrote: post #229
monooso wrote: post #137

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I don't understand the Linkding recommendations. AFAICT Linkding is a bookmarking app, much like Pinboard, not a read-later app like Pocket.

I totally understand you and it seems that a lot of users like myself were using pocket as way to sync bookmarks across devices as well. Also, linkding offers a way to read it later by using the singlefilextension https://linkding.link/archiving/

Thanks for the clarification.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by skrtskrt »

toyg wrote: post #340
skrtskrt wrote: post #189

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Kagi is starting to build their Orion browser which is WebKit-based for Linux as of this year. I never do anything close enough to the browser engine to know, but apparently devs like WebKit a lot?

Devs like WebKit because it's easy to integrate in non-browsers.

Like for desktop apps? I guess this differs fundamentally from Chromium in that... you do not run the "entire" browser like in Electron?
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