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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 (wallabag.it for 11€/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.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Is camel camel camel still useful for Amazon?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’ve found a better way to use Amazon: not using it and fuck you, Bezos.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
didn’t fakespot only work in the USA?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I use Fakespot but wasn’t aware it was a Mozilla product.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 1 month ago
The bought it out. It was originally an extension.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
well they are terminating it for a reason.
GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
I generate a QR code and scan it with my phone. Don’t sync work and personal devices.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
drspod@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
If your work doesn’t care about your productivity then give them what they deserve for the tools they provide.
Cossty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I forgot what it is called but there is an extension that syncs bookmarks between Firefox and Chromium browsers.
ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
“Read once bookmark”. Problem solved.
killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.