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> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech. Not di

> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech. Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.

grayhatter 6y ago
I hate that something which only exists to data mine, or serve ads is enabled (by default) in my web browser.
- dgellow 6y ago
  Serious question: would you pay for an equivalent service that doesn't mine your data?
  - grayhatter 6y ago
    If I actually believed that I was the customer, and not the product; yes. Obviously, that depends on a lot of things, but something that would recommend, cache/archive, catalog things I find interesting/care about. I would be willing to pay for something like it. I already pay for pandora, I'd absolutely pay for something that expanded my knowledge base.
pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
I loved pocket when it was still ReadItLater. The WebExtension sidebar plugin for Firefox is strictly worse than the old one and they haven’t improved it EVER. Instead we get bullshit pills that tell us that a link we saved is very popular. I’ve already saved it and I don’t want to know this.
mrvenkman 6y ago
I think Pocket is great too ... a great selection of articles.
m-p-3 6y ago
I love it too, and I was delighted to find official support for it on my Kobo eReader.
avery42 6y ago
I'm really disappointed that Mozilla still hasn't open-sourced Pocket, like they said they would when they acquired Pocket in 2017 [0]. At this point, it seems like a broken promise. Given this, I moved to Pinboard, which isn't open-source either, but is faster, easier to use, cheaper, and has taken no VC funding. I'm interested to see if their increased focus on products that generate revenue, like Pocket, will mean that it'll finally be open-sourced... although it doesn't seem like something that will significantly increase revenue, so I doubt it's a priority. [0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...

grayhatter 6y ago

I hate that something which only exists to data mine, or serve ads is enabled (by default) in my web browser.

dgellow 6y ago
Serious question: would you pay for an equivalent service that doesn't mine your data?
- grayhatter 6y ago
  If I actually believed that I was the customer, and not the product; yes. Obviously, that depends on a lot of things, but something that would recommend, cache/archive, catalog things I find interesting/care about. I would be willing to pay for something like it. I already pay for pandora, I'd absolutely pay for something that expanded my knowledge base.

pwdisswordfish0 6y ago

I loved pocket when it was still ReadItLater. The WebExtension sidebar plugin for Firefox is strictly worse than the old one and they haven’t improved it EVER. Instead we get bullshit pills that tell us that a link we saved is very popular. I’ve already saved it and I don’t want to know this.

mrvenkman 6y ago

I think Pocket is great too ... a great selection of articles.

m-p-3 6y ago

I love it too, and I was delighted to find official support for it on my Kobo eReader.

avery42 6y ago

I'm really disappointed that Mozilla still hasn't open-sourced Pocket, like they said they would when they acquired Pocket in 2017 [0]. At this point, it seems like a broken promise. Given this, I moved to Pinboard, which isn't open-source either, but is faster, easier to use, cheaper, and has taken no VC funding. I'm interested to see if their increased focus on products that generate revenue, like Pocket, will mean that it'll finally be open-sourced... although it doesn't seem like something that will significantly increase revenue, so I doubt it's a priority. [0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...