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.

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• Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i literally JUST installed fakespot lol

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• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I try to support Mozilla (and more obscure open source projects we take for granted) through donations and subscriptions. But I never used Pocket or Fakespot.

  I don’t think it should be a forced payment but I’d pay a few bucks a month for a true developer edition. The current one is essentially just the early beta for extension developers but something really developer focused with no bullshit and developer tools at the forefront. I don’t know if that’s something other people would pay for but I feel like it’s easier to shell out cash when I’m using it for work. A lot of people could probably expense it.

  It likely wouldn’t replace the Google money but it’d be a start.

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• Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hated it at first but then I started to leave pocket on and click links every now and then since I figured they got revenue out of it. I don’t use it often but its a shame to see it go now that I kind of like it.

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pocket is basically a chumbox, but it’s a pretty good chumbox.

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• yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  funny. if you point out what sucks about moz before they tell it to their fanbase you’re banned. but after moz announced it everbody goes like yeah good decision. the user/fan base has become the top reason to not use FF.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mozilla shouldn’t have bought FakeSpot

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  was fakespot ever available outside the us?

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• toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re likely moving to focus on Thundermail.com, VPN, calendar, private cloud storage, etc… Like Proton Mail does.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is there like worker-owned alternative to Mozilla ?

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can use firefox forks like librewolf or zen or something
    There are other smaller browsers but there you have the tradeoff that they dont have as many devs

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    • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The company itself

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wanted to like pocket but the articles were such useless slop crap. I feel bad for writers who actually have a passion for the craft but end up sitting down and shitting out low quality popsci articles all day.

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• PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, I guess I’m getting the opera or Vivaldi app, whatever that browser out of Europe is called. Or is it Brave or something, I forget.

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• raptore39@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How about Firefox syncing collections between mobile and desktop? Then we wouldn’t NEED Pocket to begin with! 🤷

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  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uhhhh, mine does. Why doesn’t yours?

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    • raptore39@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In the mobile app, tapping the three dots gets you a “save to collection” option. Where do you find it on the desktop then?

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• dorumon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh fuck the Kobo reader suddenly became more useless now.

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