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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• malin@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good riddance.

  These companies need to stop pushing ‘features’ nobody cares about and then complaining they need more funding.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good, they should exclusively focus on Firefox.

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  • IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And how they can monetize user data?

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    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re going to do that regardless.

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• burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i used pocket once, and after several steps to activate it, i realized that it was not at all what I thought it was going to be and never touched it again

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mozilla shouldn’t have bought FakeSpot

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  was fakespot ever available outside the us?

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• toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fakespot was what finally convinced my wife to leave chrome. Fuck these fuckers.

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• Opacity9850@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pocket goes hand in hand with procrastination.

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• yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uhhhh, mine does. Why doesn’t yours?

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    • raptore39@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh fuck the Kobo reader suddenly became more useless now.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there like worker-owned alternative to Mozilla ?

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  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The company itself

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