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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by major505 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #709
rnd0 wrote: post #544

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From what I understand, Brave is a shit-show in its' own right.

I use Brave and it's totally fine. People love to complain about it on HN but I have never had any bad experiences.

I use too, but is not without its problem. It does implement a lot of adds in things like the new tab page, and it did some controversial stuff (they use to replace page ads with their own, essencially stealing the page monetization, dont know if they still do).

For a while Brave is going to be my stop gap browser. Hopping that Ladybird can soon replace it.

For all its flaws, Brave still annoys me less than Mozilla assh*les.

I also tried Zen Browser... lovely, but is pretty much Mozilla with a bunch of addons. The problem is, is not clear how much of the invasive Mozilla telemetry they left on their code base. Unfourtunally, any browser that orginates from mozilla bullshit, for now, I kind consider fruit of a posionous tree.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by major505 »

Henchman21 wrote: post #470
pabs3 wrote: post #457

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Ladybird is moving to Swift IIRC?

I believe you are correct: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

Has anyone here ever used switf ouside the apple ecosystem? If so, how is the experience going?

I think in swift like C# and Microsoft. Yeah, you can and I do run a lot of C# code in other platforms. But if you really wanna use everything it has to offer, it needs to be in windows, at least in the development stages.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by major505 »

0xEF wrote: post #605
binkHN wrote: post #508

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> Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live. Ugh. This sounds so horrible, but this is probably the truest statement on this entire page.

What's even more wild is that many users, even on HN, don't seem to pick up on the fact that the alternatives to Firefox are either Chrome or Chrome in different colored trenchcoats. Firefox is like the last bastion of user choice when it comes to deciding how we interact with the Internet, a choice that has been subtly but steadily stripped from us for years. My question to the FOSS community is why Firefox is not u…

Yeah, I dont like either, but I wont support Mozilla closed mind and stupidity. They pretty much abandoned Firefox (when was the last time they really updated the browser, other than incremental small corrections?), and I refuse to give my money to fund the type of shit they expend it.

They should have through about that before going all political in their positions as an organization. It was easy with the cushion of google and federal goverment money under them (impressive how easy is to do "charity" and activism with other people money).

Now I wanna see if they will put their wallets where their mouth is, and apparently, they will not.

Every time I receive a e-mail from mozilla fundation asking for 10 bucks to fund their precious inclusivity program that have nothing to do with firefox, because they lost goverment funds, I just laught and think they should ask for a loan from their previous CEO, since she receive 7 mi in one year. I just delete the e-mail after that.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by BuckRogers »

I never understood Pocket and it felt like the beginning of the end for me. They also removed RSS toolbar support. Everything just kept going wrong and worse over time until I moved to Edge. 20 years of Firefox use is tough to break, but they did it with adding bad features, and removing great ones.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by modo_mario »

sciurus wrote: post #638
modo_mario wrote: post #583

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That doesn't sound like she and her fattened board were ousted at all.

I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more. To help highlight where there are changes and where there is continuity at the top level, here's a table of who was the MoCo CEO, MoCo and MoFo Board Chairs, MoFO President, and MoFo ED over time for the last ten years. https://imgur.com/a/OLD9EiI

>I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more.

Ousted doesn't equate to making some changes then walking away in my mind. It doesn't sound like she was in-amicably forced out over results or the like.

I remember her expanding the number of positions on the board (and the often discussed compensation) not too long (relatively) before they had some rounds of firings. I remember being confused why one or both of the ones that joined said board(it's been a while) seemed...completely unrelated to both Mozilla or it's field of expertise or so.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ikomrad »

flkiwi wrote: post #377
renegat0x0 wrote: post #121

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

Don't forget Readeck. I've been super pleased with it. (Omnivore is dead btw.)

I tried readeck and missed being able to download pages for offline storage. Also , the interface is confuse as when you mark and article as “read” , it still appears in the “unread” view. You have to archive a page to remove it from Unread.

The dev knows about it, but hasn’t fixed it yet.

The app was easy on install and it looks nice, but it needs some work.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ikomrad »

madeofpalk wrote: post #72
ummonk wrote: post #37

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What hosted products has Apple dropped? iCloud might stop supporting old devices but that doesn’t stop you from keeping the data on device or accessing via a new device.

iTunes Ping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping . I never trusted Apple after they got rid of that /s Apple's problem is they'll often leave products to be stagnant. Existing, but on life support. Like basically all their Mac Apps. A lot of hardware products like this as well, like HomePods. They have a raft of iOS apps that seemingly come out of hackathon projects that they release, never update, and then mayb…

And here I thought I was the only person who used that service.

RIP Apple Ping.

It met the same fate as Facebook Ping.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ikomrad »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #141
sambaumann wrote: post #99

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anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

I've tried all of the options: Linkwarden, Linkding, Karakeep, Shiori, Wallabag, Grimoire—you name it, I've tried it. These are all great tools, and I use Karakeep myself, but I use it to bookmark and archive links, not as a "read it later" tool. In my opinion, no self-hosted read-it-later tool can replace Instapaper or Pocket, as they focus on providing an exceptional reading experience in a native app that works of…

I’m in process of trying different tools.

I broke requirements down to 3 use cases

Links I visit often (general bookmarks) Links I visit once( read later) Links I preserve forever (offline storage)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

brycewray wrote: post #124
altairprime wrote: post #59

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Email the mods about this and they can cleanup and merge the dupes.

Well, there aren't any dupes. :-) But thanks.

Weren't you saying you had a submission that was a dupe (a different post about the same news) of this one?

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by ikomrad »

monooso wrote: post #137
sambaumann wrote: post #99

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anyone have any good suggestions for a self-hosted option?

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

Linkding is basically a reading list with some extra features like downloading an arching copy , notes, and tags.

I think of Wallabag and Readeck as readers since they render the page in “app” , keep track of your reading progress, and in some cases let you highlight text

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