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Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by nicbou »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I am also looking for an alternative. Pocket just isn't good at what it's supposed to do: saving articles for later reading, often offline.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by freeAgent »

djbusby wrote: post #19

Damnit. I use a fork of FF that has all the (worthless) Pocket stuff removed. So, now I'll be stuck refactoring my patches. I feel like every FF related post reminds me that Mozilla has lost their way. What can be done to bring it back?

I just disable pocket in about:config. It’s annoying that I have to do that at all, but it does the trick.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by AA-BA-94-2A-56 »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

Instapaper is you like cross-platform, including Kindle.

GoodLinks if you only use Apple and value privacy.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by eole666 »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I heard Wallabag is a nice Pocket alternative. And you can host it yourself. I'll try putting it on my odroid one of this day.

I'm now using the nextcloud bookmarks extension, but it's rather slow, seems unmaintained, most android apps & browser extensions don't work anymore (way worse than pocket, but at least there is no adds)

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #5

Firefox accounts are terrible. I recently thought I had a second account because I got some error about not using the primary account when trying to reset the password using that email. Turns out that Mozilla still had an old account connected even though it was removed in their interface. If you look through their bug report history they've been plagued with similar issues that they've never been able to figure out.…

Works much better for me than Chrome had.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by chrisseaton »

gnicholas wrote: post #16
grammarnazzzi wrote: post #12

> Why is Pocket migrating to Firefox accounts? ... nonsense omitted What's the point of acquiring something if you don't leverage it to coerce their users into using your other products? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) : > On February 27, 2017, Pocket announced that it had been acquired by Mozilla Corporation, the commercial arm of Firefox's non-profit development group. Mozilla staff stated that Pocke…

When a company with a huge user base (Mozilla) acquires a company with a much smaller user base (Pocket), they're probably not doing it to cross-sell the smaller user base. I thought Mozilla was going to be investing in Pocket and giving them the resources to grow, as well as sending them Mozilla's users — a fraction of whom would become premium Pocket subscribers. But as far as I can tell, there haven't been any not…

So what was the point?

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by baryphonic »

yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I've noticed similar issues lately. In fact, I have resorted to keeping my my Pocket browser extension in Brave disabled because for whatever reason, Pocket seems to cause the browser to fully utilize ~1.5 cores. I only discovered this after disabling all extensions and using them one at a time. Pocket was the only one that seemed to have a consistent signal. I haven't had weird Brave CPU spikes since I disabled Pocket.

I've wondered about how to exfiltrate all of my accumulated links I've put into Pocket over the past ~7 years or so.

Re: Pocket migration to Firefox accounts

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Post by gnicholas »

eole666 wrote: post #25
yolo42 wrote: post #20

Somewhat tangentially related. Pocket seems like a dead product. I have been using it since it can out but it feels old, slow and quite behind. I use it extensively to capture a reading list and then trim it occasionally. Any recommendations for alternatives? Offline web-rendered article views are a must - something pocket can’t do. And their text mode misses quite a few important details when there are equations or…

I heard Wallabag is a nice Pocket alternative. And you can host it yourself. I'll try putting it on my odroid one of this day. I'm now using the nextcloud bookmarks extension, but it's rather slow, seems unmaintained, most android apps & browser extensions don't work anymore (way worse than pocket, but at least there is no adds)

I'd considered using Wallabag years ago. How has it evolved in recent years?
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