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I still don't know wtf is Pocket supposed to be doing.
by NL807 5y ago
I still don't know wtf is Pocket supposed to be doing.
- goohle 5y agoPocketing? My wild guess. (Lifelong Firefox user).
- _fat_santa 5y agoSimply put it combines "article view" with pinterest style saving. Find an article online, save it to pocket, revisit it later and read it in an "article view".
- michaelt 5y agoChrome syncs things like bookmarks and credit card numbers across browsers whenever a user logs into a Google property. Pocket is Firefox trying not to fall behind on features. And presumably from Mozilla's perspective, if it has some sponsored content giving them some non-Google income, so much the better.
- orangeoxidation 5y agoFirefox has Bookmark, Settings, Extension sync and send-tab to device features independently of Pocket.
- asdff 5y agopocket is mainly an article reader and not really a bookmark service. the whole point is you don't have to send tab of some js heavy news website, you can just have the clean reader view from pocket.
- soundnote 5y agoIf you bookmark articles, they'll likely eventually go offline or your links will break because websites change and die. This is known as link rot. There are services, of which Pocket is not the only one, that save you personal hard copies of content so you can have it available offline and keep things even if they're gone. Like a personal Wayback Machine. It's a very sensible thing to integrate into a browser in my opinion, although a lot of the Firefox fanbase, being idiots in love with the idea of FOSS donationware, are hostile to. I used to be one of those idiots.