Pocket was always among the first things I disabled when setting up Firefox and apparently, I wasn't the only one doing that.... I'm sure it had its users but I always found normal bookmarks to be more convenient.
Never even heard of Fakespot, though.
Fakespot was kinda nice, whenever I looked at something on amazon I'd get a sidebar showing which reviews are real and summarizing them. It's actually pretty useful. Definitely will not miss Pocket.
Is camel camel camel still useful for Amazon?
I've found it useful enough not too long ago, mostly for comparing Amazon's pricing differences for identical products between various EU countries.
Never heard of this. Sounds useful, except I'm really only buying something from them because I need it quickly most of the time. I don't have the convenience of waiting for price drops like I do with Steam games haha. Thanks for sharing!
I use Fakespot but wasn't aware it was a Mozilla product.
OMG I JUST started using Pocket because my work banned Firefox and made us all switch to Edge!!
Now how am I going to sync bookmarks and pages I want to read later on my personal devices??
I generate a QR code and scan it with my phone. Don't sync work and personal devices.
If your work doesn't care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.
I'd be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn't require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..
Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.
Yeah, me too. I hate that useless Pocket icon in the toolbar. It's the first thing I disable on every Firefox installation.
Glad it's gone for good.
I liked Fakespot. Amazon obviously doesn't care whether reviews are legit.
Fakespot has always felt inaccurate to me. Once every 6 months or so I gave it a go to see if any of the updates have improved it but it never felt like it did to me.
Furthermore, I don't see the point in Fakespot since Amazon bends over backwards to accept returns for any reason.
Furthermore, I don't see the point in Fakespot since Amazon bends over backwards to accept returns for any reason.
Why go through that hassle if you can avoid it in the first place?
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- people who are privileged enough to never have experienced multiple days without an internet connection.
it's a shame to see it go, it's been the first read-it-later service that I was aware of and used. I've moved away to Omnivore (RIP) and then Wallabag (https://wallabag.it/ for 11€/year, but you can self-host it or find someone else to host it for you for a lower fee), but I've still been thinking fondly of it, despite Mozilla clearly trying to force people into social reading rather than just serve as a convenient offline storage of articles.
Why would you need a saas solution if it's for offline reading? Seems like a contradiction
...so that you can read it on a device other than the one you've initially opened the link on? I can save a link to Wallabag from my laptop's browser at home, have my e-readet sync it, and then read it offline while on a train.
Obsidian with the readitlater plugin is good, and actually stored in a standard format entirely on your devices, so truly offline.
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Noo! I loved Pocket. It's integrated into my Kobo eReader. It was the only good way to get articles easily synced on to an eReader. I hope Kobo buys Pocket. Or Rakuten, since that's a tech company and they own Kobo.
I used it extensively on my Kobo as well. So nice to be browsing on my phone and see long articles to read and just save them to enjoy on a nice eink screen later when I have time.
Thx for this.
Also, shout-out to https://karakeep.app/ (formerly "Hoarder")
Thank you! Guess I’ll be trying something new.
Thanks - added to Pocket to read it later.
Pocket won't be missed. Self-hosted alternatives like Wallabag are better and private, so switched to it many years ago. Integration (and enabled by default, requiring about:config to disable) ensured I'd never use it out of principle.
Fakespot (the website) was genuinely useful to help ID scams on Amzn Marketplace, though I never used the extension. But I think that enshittified in recent years, so (in the style of Stephen King's Misery) it's probably for the best.
Related, the Keepa extension is useful as a price rigging detector, but I expect that will "number must go up!" soon enough, too...
Why doesn't Mozilla change or add the MIT license to Pocket?
It's a service. It doesn't just run in the browser.
You mean, perfect for self-hosting? 😀
“Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire”
This is a misleading statement. 86% of Mozilla’s funding is from google. Modern web browsers are a fucked landscape designed to perpetuate googles dominance
Idiots. Buying a perfectly good service just to shut it down. I wonder if they even bothered looking for a buyer.
Also that new logo with the flag sucks.
Count me in the group of people sad to see it go because it made it very easy to get articles onto my Kobo e-reader. There are other ways, but they're all too labour intensive to be practical. Probably should have seen the writing on the wall, though.
pocket I never used. I found it ugly and just s violation of privacy as it moved a service that should be local only, to external webservers. I can see why it's finally had the plug pulled
part of me thinks "great, those things were annoying"
another part of me thinks it's a harbinger
Never cared for pocket and always disabled it as spyware. Fake spot will be missed though.
This is an ill omen however. They’re cutting back dramatically in anticipation of their Google funding being lost forever and perhaps as some suggest in anticipation of enshitifying. These were both sold originally as additional revenue streams for Mozilla.
Pocket is basically a chumbox, but it's a pretty good chumbox.
shame about pocket - wonder how much of a hole that really burned in their pocket - if much
Good.
Pocket was actually useful. To sent web content to my e reader..
My Kobo has the Pocket app and I'll miss being able to send articles to it. Apparently I'll be one of the few to be sad to see Pocket go.
Somebody suggested Wallabag which can also be self-hosted and is available on Kobo.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I try to support Mozilla (and more obscure open source projects we take for granted) through donations and subscriptions. But I never used Pocket or Fakespot.
I don’t think it should be a forced payment but I’d pay a few bucks a month for a true developer edition. The current one is essentially just the early beta for extension developers but something really developer focused with no bullshit and developer tools at the forefront. I don’t know if that’s something other people would pay for but I feel like it’s easier to shell out cash when I’m using it for work. A lot of people could probably expense it.
It likely wouldn’t replace the Google money but it’d be a start.
Oh fuck the Kobo reader suddenly became more useless now.
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