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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by KingMob »

alwillis wrote: post #523
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…

> For all its flaws, Mozilla is actually the ONLY other company building a browser engine. When it's gone, there will basically be only one left. Safari's iOS/iPadOS global marketshare is about 33%; it's on 2+ billion devices. Definitely not going anywhere [1]. [1]: https://mycodelesswebsite.com/safari-statistics/

> Definitely not going anywhere

Apple will happily let Webkit languish as much as possible to drive people to apps. They have every interest in getting that App Store cut, and none in extending the web with open, competing technologies. (* Maybe the recent app store legal rulings ill change things, we'll see.)

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by illiac786 »

gnomespaceship wrote: post #617
podgietaru wrote: post #211

I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow. I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. https://github.com/Podg…

https://omnivore.app is down. Hug of death perhaps?

as mentioned in the parent comment, omnivore shut down.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by harvey9 »

paradox460 wrote: post #472
grues-dinner wrote: post #458

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What's bonkers to me is that people are alway complaining about ads and they're not putting "delete web ads from your life" front and center of their value proposition. Go to firefox.com and look at the the "why Firefox" copy. It's could be about basically any modern browser. It's like selling a car with "it has wheels!". I guess that might threaten their tie-up with the world's biggest adtech company which is why th…

I bought a car a couple years ago. It advertised am/fm radio in the feature sheet

I read the parent post as meaning 'wheels!' being front and centre of the brochure.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by pete1302 »

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 seems to be institutionally committed to chasing its own demise" Indeed every stable software provider.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by kome »

medstrom wrote: post #490
twilo wrote: post #415

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Best alt other than perch? For whatever reason I can’t get it to show up in the share/send menu on iOS and doesn’t seem to have a browser extension. How do you send articles to it?

Maybe https://pinboard.in ? I haven't used it, but it tempts me a few times per decade.

it's very good because it's simple and hasn't changed in over 10 years. you know it won't change, and it's the best $6.28 I've ever invested (but of course, I wouldn't pay for it every year; I would find another solution).

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Post by fobo66 »

itair wrote: post #604
trinsic2 wrote: post #597

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I used to use Rain.drop, not the same a pocket, but similar. I imported the data into Obsidian and I now use that for information I want to save online using the clipper plugin. It's changed my life. If you like customizing the searchability and displaying content from saved pages, is the best IMHO.

Rain.drop is Russian, isn't it?

The maintainer of Raindrop is from Kazakhstan

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

binkHN wrote: post #508
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.

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

Look into what the Mozilla foundation actually spends its money on and the exec salaries, developer layoffs and then compare that to Firefox development over the past 5 years.

It’s getting harder and harder to find examples of this non-profit structure in tech that actually serve the software they claim to.

Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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Post by alabastervlog »

netsharc wrote: post #462
soulofmischief wrote: post #451

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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.

Ah, Firefox, the overly attached browser: https://bug1791524.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=9295... (From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791524 )

A lot of developers and “UX” “experts” really don’t appreciate how extreme these modals are. They disrupt everyone a little bit, and for less-technical users can throw them off entirely.

“Once per year” heh, add it to all the other disruptive shit they pop up and out on launch basically at random and they’re training users to dread launching the program. “Will it slap me in the face this time? If so, how hard?” Most modern programs have a problem with this, but FF is bad about it. And it’s just a fucking browser! Why? Why do this crap?

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