Technology

Pocket was silly, just use tabs and buy more RAM.

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 enjoy pocket for the articles that come up on the new tab page. I’ve never once saved an article for later with it.

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

Everything good to halfway decent must die on the alter of cost cuts, but nevermind and never notice that they're investing all of the savings on dubious junk like AI.

Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.

Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.

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.

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?

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

another part of me thinks it's a harbinger

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.

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.

The real Pocket is the Google money they made along the way.

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?

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