Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.

TAG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Never used pocket, how does this differ from just having a bookmarks folder called “stuff to read while you’re taking a shit”?

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  • Alaknar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The difference is in convenience.

    On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.

    On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pocket saved an offline searchable archive of all of the article text. Multiple times I found articles I saved that were no longer online. So no, it’s not the same as bookmarks

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  • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t save stuff with it but I read the articles that come up on desktop. so it’s kinda like a community, subreddit, rss feed, whatever

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• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bookmarks can do all that already or am I missing something?

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pocket can save the content of an article without the formatting and ads, which you can then download to Pocket’s app for offline reading.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah thanks TIL

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Synced bookmarks. You’ll be happy to learn that this is also a feature Firefox offers.

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  • TAG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t want to sync my bookmarks. The sites I want bookmarked on my desktop are not the same as the sites I want bookmarked on my phone nor the sites I want bookmarked on my work laptop.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They go to different locations. The ones from mobile are in “mobile bookmarks”.

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• snekkysnake@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Before pocket I was using instapaper, seems like it’s still around. Bit of a shame about pocket, it’s pretty useful

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I use Inoreader as my RSS feed reader and it has a section to save webpages in a similar fashion.

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