I use Fakespot but wasn’t aware it was a Mozilla product.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pocket was always among the first things I disabled when setting up Firefox and apparently, I wasn’t the only one doing that… Never even heard of Fakespot, though.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 months ago
The bought it out. It was originally an extension.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
still is as far as I know. I am using it.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not for much longer
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
well they are terminating it for a reason.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OMG I JUST started using Pocket because my work banned Firefox and made us all switch to Edge!!
Now how am I going to sync bookmarks and pages I want to read later on my personal devices??
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I generate a QR code and scan it with my phone. Don’t sync work and personal devices.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn’t require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..
Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
They are probably scanning for the binary file executable.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They literally have control of and log every app that’s installed and will bug you until you uninstall it.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless they’re doing app signing, some of the methods to “log every app” literally look for an executable name. Renaming “firefox.exe” to “explorer.exe” (an obviously allowed executable name) and then executing it will still run Firefox.
drspod@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If your work doesn’t care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.
Cossty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I forgot what it is called but there is an extension that syncs bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium browsers.
ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s Instapaper and once upon a time they even gave you an email address to send links into. Maybe they still do that.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
Yeah, me too. I hate that useless Pocket icon in the toolbar. It’s the first thing I disable on every Firefox installation.
M137@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bookmarks and services like pocket are for different things. Bookmarks are for websites you come back to often. Pocket and other services like it are for saving link to stuff you want to remember and/or come back to once or a few times. Bookmarks are not made for having thousands of, while “read later” services are for saving anything and easily have hundreds, thousands tens or hundreds of thousands of things saved.
bufalo1973@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“Read once bookmark”. Problem solved.
killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I used to use Pocket a lot, it was my main way to read long form articles. I somehow stopped doing that years ago as a way to preserve my mental health. Since then I haven’t used Pocket once.
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Didn’t some articles have the pocket icon, and some were without? I remember trying it a number of years ago and being completely flummoxed by not being able to save things I wanted to read. Though it could have been user error.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is camel camel camel still useful for Amazon?
pirat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve found it useful enough not too long ago, mostly for comparing Amazon’s pricing differences for identical products between various EU countries.
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes CamelCamelCamel is still useful. I check it every time before a major purchase.
ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Keepa is better, and depending on whether you’re conspiratorial, not compromised as 3Camels was accused of some years ago.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Compromised?
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never heard of this. Sounds useful, except I’m really only buying something from them because I need it quickly most of the time. I don’t have the convenience of waiting for price drops like I do with Steam games haha. Thanks for sharing!
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Fakespot became defeated years ago and became useless on Amazon.
The best method I’ve had is to ignore any off brand looking product that’s been for sale for less than a couple months, but has tons of reviews, and when I pick something, sort the reviews by newest first and read those ones.
Usually the most paid reviews and fake reviews are close to when a product first starts selling. If the thing has been for sale for a little while, odds are that the most recent reviews are mostly from real people. Also, sometimes they will sale a higher quality item the first few weeks it’s for sale, and then start selling the item with cheaper parts on the inside. Like earbuds with good innards getting swapped out for cheaper drivers and processors.
bufalo1973@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve found a better way to use Amazon: not using it and fuck you, Bezos.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
based
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
didn’t fakespot only work in the USA?
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never tried it outside of the USA, couldn’t tell ya.