Good.

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.

shame about pocket - wonder how much of a hole that really burned in their pocket - if much

Good. I've been disabling this shit in about:config for one decade too many.

Why don't they just open it up to let people run their own Pocket services? The usual "proprietary code" excuses make no sense for an organization like Mozilla and it's being end of lifed anyway. Just dump it on a repo somewhere and let people hack on it if they want to. Why isn't this part of the sunsetting plan?

They're likely moving to focus on Thundermail.com, VPN, calendar, private cloud storage, etc.. Like Proton Mail does.

was fakespot ever available outside the us?

Mozilla shouldn't have bought FakeSpot

Mozilla! Stop doing stupid stuff!

As a Kobo user who sends articles to my Kobo via Pocket A LOT, this is some hefty bullshit.

Sad news, but trimming the fat is what people wanted Mozilla to do. Anyone know a good alternative to Fakespot? I absolutely don't trust amazon's own review summaries, and expect other alternatives would be for-profit data harvesters.

Fakespot was what finally convinced my wife to leave chrome. Fuck these fuckers.

Shutting down two things that had no business being built in their browser, to replace them with more stuff that have no business being built in their browser.

Mozilla really embraced the "corporation must corporate" motto.

Finally! I couldn't wait for Pocket to shut down. One useless icon less in my Firefox.

YES! No more Pocket button sticking out like a sore thumb!

Wait, I didn't know Mozilla actually owned Pocket, I thought they just had a partnership or something...

I used to main Pocket back in the days when I had an iPod Touch 4G and older iPhone models, nowadays... It is storing articles from those days that I bet I haven't gotten to read 😂

Man, one gets a backlog of everything these days.

well shit, i loved pocket. i guess time to make my own del.icio.us social bookmarking/saving app like i've been wanting to for years.

Nobody cared to use Pocket so its not surprising, btw what was that Fakespot thing?

Well no one likes or asked for pocket as far as I know so good riddance.