Mozilla has tried so many things: I wonder if anyone there has considered releasing and maintaining a browser. They might have some luck against Chrome.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Is this cause of the money they lost from the google thing?
Thanks - added to Pocket to read it later.
Thx for this.
Also, shout-out to https://karakeep.app/ (formerly "Hoarder")
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“Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire”
This is a misleading statement. 86% of Mozilla’s funding is from google. Modern web browsers are a fucked landscape designed to perpetuate googles dominance
An recommendations for Pocket-Alternatives? I save articles on my phone and desktop and read on my tablet…
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I liked it at first until the recommendations became more-and-more advertorial slop.
I used it like 3 times before deciding my read later functionality is already and better served by the 206 tabs I will never look at.
Pocket is one service of theirs I did use from time to time. Save an article you want to read later without committing it to a bookmark.
Wish they'd make bookmark not suck so much that using them felt like a commitment to organisationnal chores. The bookmark system is largely unchanged since the netscape days.
You cant search texts inside bookmarks because they only store the url. Which will break. Instead of saving the html itself, as if we still only has hundreds of gigabytes.
It should have a library level search system, capable of not just symbol text but intelligent summarization, categorization, search by relecant, content discovery algorithm, rss feed support all fully local, offline capable.
The whole thing, metadata, html, inages, video, files, code, replay of the changes over time. Yes I should be able to replay clicking "read more" as I expand comments on facebook. I should not lose my work to a page reload ever again. And no that's nor "too much space". Web pages are largely text sent super efficiently it is not that much information even compared to a gigabyte.
What you're describing is so much more difficult from a technical standpoint than you give it credit.
Static pages – sure, the plague of single page applications – oof, that's a challenge.
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Pocket won't be missed. Self-hosted alternatives like Wallabag are better and private, so switched to it many years ago. Integration (and enabled by default, requiring about:config to disable) ensured I'd never use it out of principle.
Fakespot (the website) was genuinely useful to help ID scams on Am*z*n Marketplace, though I never used the extension. But I think that enshittified in recent years, so (in the style of Stephen King's Misery) it's probably for the best.
Related, the Keepa extension is useful as a price rigging detector, but I expect that will "number must go up!" soon enough, too...
Wait, I didn't know Mozilla actually owned Pocket, I thought they just had a partnership or something...
I used to main Pocket back in the days when I had an iPod Touch 4G and older iPhone models, nowadays... It is storing articles from those days that I bet I haven't gotten to read 😂
Man, one gets a backlog of everything these days.
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Everything good to halfway decent must die on the alter of cost cuts, but nevermind and never notice that they're investing all of the savings on dubious junk like AI.
fuck, I'm using the Pocket plugin a lot :[
not for proper bookmarking, just to mark where I was in longer videos and webcomics, 1 click on/off, easy
Why doesn't Mozilla change or add the MIT license to Pocket?
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Count me in the group of people sad to see it go because it made it very easy to get articles onto my Kobo e-reader. There are other ways, but they're all too labour intensive to be practical. Probably should have seen the writing on the wall, though.
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Bummer. I can see pocket going, I tried to use it but it’s basically a place to put stuff that you plant to but never actually get around to reading, a bookmark does the same thing. Fakespot I’m not sure about. I’ve used it, but there’s no way to verify how right it is.
Idiots. Buying a perfectly good service just to shut it down. I wonder if they even bothered looking for a buyer.
Also that new logo with the flag sucks.