Technology

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.

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

Pocket is one service of theirs I did use from time to time. Save an article you want to read later without committing it to a bookmark.

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.

I liked it at first until the recommendations became more-and-more advertorial slop.

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?

Welp, I've taught my parents to use the fakespot site before doing a purchase on Amazon. Fakespot was never a perfect tool, but it was easy to use and better than not checking review quality at all.

I wanted to like pocket, but I never really understood the point of it when I was already using Reddit or Google News to curate what I liked to read about. Was it more privacy oriented?

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.

An recommendations for Pocket-Alternatives? I save articles on my phone and desktop and read on my tablet…

Is this cause of the money they lost from the google thing?

Mozilla has tried so many things: I wonder if anyone there has considered releasing and maintaining a browser. They might have some luck against Chrome.

fuck, I'm using the Pocket plugin a lot :[

not for proper bookmarking, just to mark where I was in longer videos and webcomics, 1 click on/off, easy

part of me thinks "great, those things were annoying"

another part of me thinks it's a harbinger

Welp, guess I better start up the calibre extension to send pocket articles as a file for ebook readers.

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.