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Pocket shutting down (support.mozilla.org)

submitted 8 hours ago by Matt@lemdro.id to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, 2025. This is very disappointing as I love the compatibility with my Kobo.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

(The monkey paw turns, and) we got our wish.

We did it, internet! We killed yet another Firefox revenue stream!

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

my understanding is that Mozilla paid good money for pocket and never made much from it

[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They promised to open source it 7 years ago when they bought it and now they're snatching it out from under users and shutting it down. Mozilla is getting better and better at emulating its Silicon Valley idols

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I've lost faith in Mozilla. I really think it would be best to fire the board and start over.

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Fakespot is shutting down as well.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

[–] splendoruranium 7 points 8 hours ago

Good riddance, maybe at least now FF will stop trying to push it so hard.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Absolutely shameful mismanagement. This is really the last straw for me. I've subscribed for years. I'm getting off all the other Mozilla products I subscribe to. On the plus side, this is the kick in the pants I need to finally migrate to a self hosted solution

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh for crying out loud, stop removing actually useful stuff, Mozilla! The AI junk you're working on? That you can nuke from the orbit. Pocket? Keep it, it's actually useful.

Mozilla is sometimes just... unable to keep actually cool stuff around. I don't know why this keeps happening, because open source development organisations shouldn't work this way.