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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.
I switched to Vivaldi after 23 years of Mozilla. Could not be happier.
Sadly Vivaldi is also dependent on Chromium, and will also have to lose Manifest v2 support when that time comes.
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…
I never wanted Pocket, it was forced upon us users initially and slowly made less obtrusive, but the damage was done. When I saw this headline, I cracked a wide smile; maybe there is hope for Firefox after all. I just want a browser that respects my freedom. Not a web platform with a dozen doodads and gizmos and AI review bots and weird partnerships.
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
It does have an "import from pocket" feature builtin.
The dev is suuuuper nice and the features have been nicely coming along. Can't wait to see all the features announced.
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> A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction. Interesting. I saw it as a glorified bookmarking service and saw the readability concerns as what raised red flags for me: mozilla just inherently isn't interested in competing on value rather than on marketing.
the internet is no longer designed to be readable. it is designed to be profitable.
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> A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction. Interesting. I saw it as a glorified bookmarking service and saw the readability concerns as what raised red flags for me: mozilla just inherently isn't interested in competing on value rather than on marketing.
They killed off the live bookmarks feature that I still miss in favor of this and it was never the same. My rss feeds are still around from then. Glad I didn't invest in this fad.
...but where RSS is reliable, yes, it's amazing.
Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?
I used Pocket for about 3 years, before and after the acquisition. When Firefox started syncing bookmarks across devices, and they added the reader mode, Pocket became obsolete in my mind. I stopped using it because I didn't need it anymore.
This doesn't sound accurate
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My hopes are with Servo, I like the novelty of it being implemented in Rust rather than C/C++. I follow Ladybird and appreciate their work. Especially implementing everything from standards, fixing standards and keeping it easy to follow the standards in code (and I'm proud Andreas is Swedish too). But for something with the surface area of "everything you can do with a computer and it's uncle" a memory safe language…
Ladybird is moving to Swift IIRC?