Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

Post by benjaminoakes » Fri, May 23, 2025, 7:36 PM UTC

fifteen1506 wrote: post #231

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…

Check the barebones but functional Wallabag. Hosted version available for a fee.

Post by benjaminoakes » Fri, May 23, 2025, 7:40 PM UTC

xz18r wrote: post #80

I have used Wallabag[0] for read-later articles for many years. Very happy about it. I host it on a VPS but they offer a paid instance[1] themselves for $9/y. And otherwise you can use something like Pikapods[2] which is also dirt cheap. [0] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag [1] https://www.wallabag.it/en [2] https://www.pikapods.com/apps

Post by benjaminoakes » Fri, May 23, 2025, 7:42 PM UTC

timetraveller26 wrote: post #175

So much wasted potential, I was a top 1% reader for a couple years (mostly because I saved a lot of things probably); it was a convenient way to save articles and references in multiple devices but at the end I was frustated it was so cumberstone to keep links organized. I stopped paying premium and migrated to a self-hosted Wallabag, which doesn't have all the features I want but hey, in hindsight it was the right d…

Post by agiacalone » Fri, May 23, 2025, 7:56 PM UTC

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #710

agiacalone wrote: post #442

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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.

Post by Tadpole9181 » Fri, May 23, 2025, 8:06 PM UTC

readthenotes1 wrote: post #323

donnachangstein wrote: post #316

Another feature no one asked for, meeting its technological grave. For those few users of Pocket this function could have been easily handled as an extension. If Mozilla spent the engineering hours wasted on this toward fixing the ever growing mountain of existing bugs they might have more than 1% market share.

Firefox has the "killer app" for modern browsers--ublock origin. I am dismayed by how much money Mozilla spends on things other than the browser, though.