Welp, guess I better start up the calibre extension to send pocket articles as a file for ebook readers.
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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 π
Man, one gets a backlog of everything these days.
I'm already on my second 'Watch Later' playliat on YT.
But it doesnt even remove them atomatically when you do, so when I am stuck and go there its full of things I did watch!
And double full of suff I will never.
How about Firefox syncing collections between mobile and desktop? Then we wouldn't NEED Pocket to begin with! π€·
I never used Pocket itself, but I do like having the grid of news articles on the new tab page, which I believe is powered by Pocket in some shape or form. Anyone know if that feature is going away too?
It's just a fancy history, it has nothing to do with pocket.
Pocket absolutely would suggest you articles (and ads) by default unless you explicitly told it not to in your settings. This is separate from the tiles of frequently visited pages from your history.
The second slider down is your history/pinned shortcuts on the home screen. The third one is recommended junk, "Powered by Pocket."
More info on that here, for however long this will do anyone any good:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pocket-recommendations-firefox-new-tab
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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 11β¬/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.
people who are privileged enough to never have experienced multiple days without an internet connection.
I have, and if you need an SaaS for that, I am sorry for you. Pocket was great for getting around paywalls for a while.
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.
what OS does your ereader run? can it run syncthing? can it open HTML?
it's a jailbroken Paperwhite, so I could look into setting up a Syncthing KOReader plugin, but my current setup works perfectly fine for me.
oh, I realized you have been using wallabag nowadays. but syncthing, plus pages saved with the singlefile or the webscrapbook addon could work fine
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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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.
i used to use pocket all the time back in the day. slowly realized there arent many articles worth saving for later let alone reading at all.
Regardless of whatever it did or however it did it, the way Pocket was suddenly shoved in everyone's faces by default definitely left a bad taste in a lot of mouths (including mine) and everybody just considered it more unasked-for adware. Especially since in its default configuration about a quarter of what it serves you is indeed flat out ads, when most of us are using Firefox with uBlock or similar specifically not to see ads.
Pocket provided a feature I suspect few people actually used, and in the process had an obnoxious presentation that a lot of people actively disliked. Add me to the list of people who won't be sad to see it go.
I want my browser developer developing browsers, not other ancillary side projects and certainly not "curating content" or whatever the fuck.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that Pocket costs Mozilla a nontrivial amount of money and manpower to maintain, what with doing all that curation and all, and provides them bupkis in return.
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.
didn't fakespot only work in the USA?
Never tried it outside of the USA, couldn't tell ya.
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Mozilla! Stop doing stupid stuff!
I liked Fakespot. Amazon obviously doesn't care whether reviews are legit.
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βFirefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaireβ
This is a misleading statement. 86% of Mozillaβs funding is from google. Modern web browsers are a fucked landscape designed to perpetuate googles dominance
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.
Supposedly Wallabag works Kobo readers. Most people self host Wallabag but I think they do have a hosted option as well.
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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...
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.
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