Pocket was silly, just use tabs and buy more RAM.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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You don’t need to. Modem browsers will suspend unused tabs, cache them on drive and free up the memory, while quickly restoring as soon user activate them. On at least moderately fast systems this happens so quickly it’s hardly noticeable.
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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.
Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.
Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.
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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.
I liked it at first until the recommendations became more-and-more advertorial slop.
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Why don't they just open it up to let people run their own Pocket services? The usual "proprietary code" excuses make no sense for an organization like Mozilla and it's being end of lifed anyway. Just dump it on a repo somewhere and let people hack on it if they want to. Why isn't this part of the sunsetting plan?
code has been open for about 10 years. it was a binary blob to begin with but nowadays it's all here
Fair enough, last I heard it wasn't, and they certainly continue to talk like it isn't. It feels like maybe the shutdown post might've been a good place to try to spread some awareness of this fact as it might be something people losing access to the service might be interested in.
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Welp, I've taught my parents to use the fakespot site before doing a purchase on Amazon. Fakespot was never a perfect tool, but it was easy to use and better than not checking review quality at all.
part of me thinks "great, those things were annoying"
another part of me thinks it's a harbinger
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Shutting down two things that had no business being built in their browser, to replace them with more stuff that have no business being built in their browser.
Mozilla really embraced the "corporation must corporate" motto.
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I wanted to like pocket, but I never really understood the point of it when I was already using Reddit or Google News to curate what I liked to read about. Was it more privacy oriented?
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An recommendations for Pocket-Alternatives? I save articles on my phone and desktop and read on my tablet…
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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.
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
Is this cause of the money they lost from the google thing?