Mozilla is shutting down Pocket so it can free up time and resources for cramming more "AI-powered" trash into Firefox www.404media.co/pocket-app-s...
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Pocket appeared during a bunch of google projects spinning up and disappearing. I knew Pocket would never last forever, same with Evernote, so I never became a user. My Firefox bookmarks are very old and full of dead links, they are ugly but portable.
may 22, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Pocket integration with the Kobo e-reader made the experience of reading articles so much better than on the phone. This sucks.
may 22, 2025, 7:34 pm • 2 0 • view
FYI Instapaper is a good alternative www.instapaper.com
may 23, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
they can't even do one last patch to make it work local only on the way out? or open source it for people to self-host? come on man
jun 1, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
fuckers
jun 1, 2025, 9:24 pm • 1 0 • view
OMFG
may 22, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't want "AI". I want Pocket!
may 22, 2025, 10:20 pm • 6 0 • view
The year is 2029. Most of my software is open source or European because those are the only ways to avoid being invaded by AI, flensed for my data, or inviting a smash and grab on my financials.
may 22, 2025, 8:56 pm • 5 0 • view
When do you think they’ll start ACTUALLY burning the libraries?
may 22, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
To be perfectly honest - Mozilla needs to stop expanding their range and go back to developing the Gecko engine. Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi have become so unbelievably bloated that I think a simplified firefox experience would actually give them a competitive advantage in the market.
may 25, 2025, 10:37 am • 3 0 • view
I'm really bummed. Pocket was fine, there was nothing wrong with it.
jun 1, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I was mad about people being mad about pocket being added to mozilla, and now I'm mad about it being removed. Mozilla remains goat at the "worst of all sides" situation.
may 22, 2025, 7:20 pm • 20 1 • view
impressive actually
may 22, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Sorry, potentially stupid question but I never used Pocket (despite using Firefox for 20+ years): How is it different/better than just bookmarking the page/article you want to read later?
may 22, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
You could download it onto your mobile device and read on the airplane and such later, and it saved it without moving ads or pop-up links and sidebar stuff. Just the text and photos. And much of the time it found a version of the page behind the paywall and stayed even if the page became 404
may 23, 2025, 11:47 am • 5 0 • view
Ah, ok. That does sound handy and a stupid thing to get rid of.
may 23, 2025, 11:53 am • 1 0 • view
the only other app I like is AllTrails btw
may 22, 2025, 7:15 pm • 30 0 • view
I'm bummed that AllTrails is adding an AI angle as well now. Having AllTrailsGPT telling people what trails are good (instead of using critical thinking) worries me since AI Guiding People Through the Backcountry sounds like the setup for the next "Google Maps Leads Someone Off Bridge" Headline 🙃
may 23, 2025, 3:07 pm • 7 1 • view
nooooo this is the first I'm hearing of this
may 23, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
It has all the bummers one would expect 😭 techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/a...
may 24, 2025, 1:06 pm • 3 0 • view
“This $80-per-year subscription will introduce AI tools to build custom routes and provide real-time trail condition forecasts, trail traffic heatmaps, and a feature that lets you identify trees and plants using your phone’s camera.”
may 24, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm pissed off
may 22, 2025, 7:04 pm • 61 1 • view
Damn, now where am I gonna store all those links I was someday gonna read?
may 22, 2025, 7:05 pm • 5 0 • view
Onetab
may 22, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
exactly!!!!! my emotional support link saver
may 22, 2025, 7:06 pm • 7 0 • view
I use onetab
may 22, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
i'm so sad! if people have recs for alternatives (esp ones with a decent chance of sticking around for a while) please do share!
may 22, 2025, 7:13 pm • 5 0 • view
I'd like to know too! I just started using it after getting a kobo.
may 22, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
same - too much bad today. Among other things, Pocket was where I put articles that I couldn't read because of spam ad popups
may 22, 2025, 7:08 pm • 19 0 • view
Ugh. Is there an alternative?
may 22, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
My much less convenient version is to use my RSS reader's save-for-later feature and paste in the URL. It is... suboptimal.
may 22, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Just leave 37 tabs open, like the rest of us sickos. (Pro tip: Have them in a 2nd window, to hide your shame from your normal browsing 😅)
may 23, 2025, 7:15 am • 1 0 • view
I… I already do that. 😭
may 23, 2025, 10:22 am • 3 0 • view
NOOOOOOOOO
may 22, 2025, 7:52 pm • 4 0 • view
aaaaaand i'm transferring to waterfox. what the actual fuck is happening at firefox? first completely destroying their privacy promise and now bending the knee to AI slop???
may 28, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
mozilla noooooooo
may 22, 2025, 9:02 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm sad they also shuttered Fakespot. Fakespot's genAI features were largely useless, but its review analysis was actually helpful for filtering out astro-turfed reviews.
may 22, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Me and my 200 saved links that I want to read but never get around to:
may 23, 2025, 12:22 am • 7 0 • view
I did an export of my data and i was over 1400 links. At least it's a chance to cull it down and re-import to wherever I'm moving to.
may 23, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean they are also getting rid of that AI review detector thing as well. I am pretty sure they are trying to minimize money sinks because of the Google concerns.
jun 2, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, I fucking hate this. Pocket was the best product Mozilla had
may 22, 2025, 7:16 pm • 16 0 • view
My main suggestion for a successor, which I absolute love and happily pay for since moving from Instapaper: readwise.io/read (Bootstrapped and profitable, and full of useful features and open integrations) For bookmarking web sites: Check breadcrum.net and raindrop.io
may 22, 2025, 7:21 pm • 11 0 • view
Not a replacement for something free and semi-open source.
may 22, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, they did shut down the free service now, right? Because it wasn’t profitable? Better to have something than nothing and I happily pay for something that makes it easier for me to consume texts.
may 22, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
In my use case it's not so simple. Most important function in Pocket was to get articles from web to my Kobo eReader So I guess I'll have to wait and see how Kobo/Rakuten reacts to this
may 22, 2025, 7:27 pm • 10 0 • view
There seems to already be Readwise support for highlights / annotation on the Kobo, so maybe it will come!
may 22, 2025, 7:33 pm • 3 0 • view
help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/art... hope the integration shows up in the kobo menu soon
may 22, 2025, 7:57 pm • 4 0 • view
god DAMN it first google reader and now this
may 22, 2025, 8:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Feeling this so hard. Sure I can export what’s in Pocket but really don’t have a vision for how to make that information easily useful
may 23, 2025, 12:50 am • 2 0 • view
And here I was all excited to explore using Pocket since I got a new e-reader yesterday that touts it's pocket integration. Oy.
may 22, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 1 • view
Why I jumped to #Vivaldi.
may 22, 2025, 7:10 pm • 6 1 • view
ARGH, Pocket was a big reason why Firefox was my preferred browser. So stupid to shut down such a useful feature that probably runs in a fraction of power of garbage AI.
may 22, 2025, 7:18 pm • 18 1 • view
This is bad. I love Pocket
may 22, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuuuuuuuu !!! Tho I've not used it much in the last few years, it was for me too an incredible companion on those long work commutes years ago Also, while I am (and always has been) a fan of Firefox the browser (never use Chrome - over my dead body that google data roomba) Fire Mozilla execs!!!!
may 22, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
As for replacement heard years ago about wallabag !!!! Open source, self hostable (or you can pay for a hosted version), And pretty important on that one : hosted in Europe So ... yea. www.wallabag.it/en
may 22, 2025, 8:41 pm • 7 0 • view
dammit, I loved Pocket and had so many little workflows connected to it, this is such sad news
may 22, 2025, 7:35 pm • 6 0 • view
My main suggestion for a successor, which I absolute love and happily pay for since moving from Instapaper: readwise.io/read (Bootstrapped and profitable, and full of useful features and open integrations) For bookmarking web sites: Check breadcrum.net and raindrop.io
may 22, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
So very shithouse - now moving to https://linkwarden.app/ - open source, self hostable but has a cloud option for $3, looks pretty solid.
may 22, 2025, 7:18 pm • 10 0 • view
interesting!
may 22, 2025, 7:19 pm • 1 0 • view
The comments thread on Hackernews has some more alternatives, may be worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063662
may 22, 2025, 7:22 pm • 6 0 • view
I also loved Pocket, though I haven’t really used it in years. Are there alternatives available? Whatever happened to Instapaper?
may 22, 2025, 7:13 pm • 4 0 • view
I haven't heard that name in years
may 22, 2025, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
My main suggestion for a successor, which I absolute love and happily pay for since moving from Instapaper: readwise.io/read (Bootstrapped and profitable, and full of useful features and open integrations) For bookmarking web sites: Check breadcrum.net and raindrop.io
may 22, 2025, 7:22 pm • 4 0 • view
📌
may 22, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks a bunch @mozilla.org, the only browser extension I use every day, for years. Might as well go back to bloody paper and pen.
may 22, 2025, 10:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Noooo not Mozilla too.
may 23, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
"We are shutting down an entire division so that we can deliver vertical tabs" is a wild take.
may 23, 2025, 8:35 am • 4 0 • view