Very sad to see Pocket. I had briefly been a paid user. Really shocked, not sure what is an easy alternative beyond Pinterest, which itself a nightmare nowadays.
Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
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Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#702I 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…
> …that are available in every other browser
where “every other browser” == Chrome.
Otherwise, agreed.
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#703I wish I could just buy out Mozilla outright so that they could you know, focus on building a browser. Alas, my wallets nowhere near big enough to do so. Leave all the business ventures to a completely different (named too) org. I grow tired of them starting something great and then stopping because they've wasted funds. Like oxidizing Firefox I was really excited for. Sadly they stopped while they had broken amazing…
You would buy them out so they could focus 100% of their time to an endeavor that doesn't bring in any money except from a ludicrously generous gift from Google that might be illegal? Like I get it, I wish they could just be a browser company too but all their other side ventures are desperate attempts to diversify their revenue. They don't have a billion dollar ad business obviate their need to actually be a busines…
> You would buy them out so they could focus 100% of their time to an endeavor that doesn't bring in any money except from a ludicrously generous gift from Google that might be illegal?
If I could buy them out, I wouldn't be taking any money from Google ;)
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#704> Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.
The link to "more info" links to a page with this exact same vague text...
Re: Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
#705Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m curious: with that many saves, what were you main reasons for using Pocket? Did you glean info at scale or is it just the case that you saved so much, read some subset, and it grew over time?
The initial idea was nice: do not lose what you want to read later (the list), keep a list of what you read (archive). Then it became better with “Permanent copies”: never lose content you want to read again later. That number is a combination of all three, plus more than a decade of active use.
Damn, any alternatives in mind for that workflow?
My killer feature that led me to start using Pocket was Kobo integration: I could hit a button on my computer and continue reading an article on my ereader, duly cleaned up.
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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 has been broken for a long time. spiritually and intellectually, brave is the successor
An ad-ware reskin of chromium is the successor of Firefox?
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#708Lmao. I'm sorry, but lmao. Mozilla just cannot get out of their own way. All we want is a good open fucking browser not dominated by a corporation, and they can't stop distracting themselves with things that don't matter and then eventually shutting them down. Mozilla needs to clean house of their leadership. Burn it all down. Start from scratch. It's a joke right now...and I say that as a daily user of Firefox and s…
A deserved fart down your throat is what you get
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#709Earlier quoted context omitted.
mozilla has been broken for a long time. spiritually and intellectually, brave is the successor
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.
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#710Earlier quoted context omitted.
mozilla has been broken for a long time. spiritually and intellectually, brave is the successor
Sorry, but I'm not going to trust any browser based on Chrome. Even Brave. It's not long until Brave won't be able to support Manifest V2 as Google has every interest to kill it completely.
> It's not long until Brave won't be able to support Manifest V2
That's true but not that big of a deal in their case. The built-in ad blocker works quite well and removes the need to run uBlock Origin.