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Reading pro-Pocket comments is so surreal. I never really paid any attention to Pocket and never used it but 100% of the comments I ever saw were about how it

Reading pro-Pocket comments is so surreal. I never really paid any attention to Pocket and never used it but 100% of the comments I ever saw were about how it was some invasion of privacy tool that was evidence of corruption in Mozilla selling your data to 3rd parties or something. Now it's dead and ... everyone here is mourning its passing. Guess I was a successful mark for anti-Mozilla FUD tactics.

podgietaru 1y ago
I used Pocket since it was called Read-it-Later back in 2011/2010. It was one of the first things I'd install onto every device I owned. I used it until their dreadful redesign in 2023. I got a _lot_ of use out of Pocket.
- lxgr 1y ago
  I've also used it for several years, but it really was never great compared to anything else in this space and seemingly stopped any feature development years ago. The biggest problem for me was that they just completely gave up on paywalls, at a time when viable workarounds finally became widely available (e.g. iOS share sheet extensions being able to inject JavaScript into Safari to collect the content, which is what many alternatives do). Completely useless for reading paid news.
lxgr 1y ago
My feelings are 30% annoyed (because I still have some data in there), 70% hopeful that a thoroughly mediocre contender is going a way and some more consolidation in this market might finally create critical mass for and focus on some open-source, data-exportable solution in the way Omnivore unfortunately couldn't.
hiccuphippo 1y ago
I loved it when it was called read-it-later and was a standalone add-on. Requiring a Mozilla account made me stop using it.
input_sh 1y ago
I don't think anyone was opposed to Pocket-the-product, but its integration into Firefox. I used it long before Mozilla purchased it and continued to use it for years after, but jumped ship because years went by without any updates to the product. IIRC it hasn't received a single update between approximately 2019 and 2021. It felt abandoned long before today.

podgietaru 1y ago

I used Pocket since it was called Read-it-Later back in 2011/2010. It was one of the first things I'd install onto every device I owned. I used it until their dreadful redesign in 2023. I got a _lot_ of use out of Pocket.

lxgr 1y ago
I've also used it for several years, but it really was never great compared to anything else in this space and seemingly stopped any feature development years ago. The biggest problem for me was that they just completely gave up on paywalls, at a time when viable workarounds finally became widely available (e.g. iOS share sheet extensions being able to inject JavaScript into Safari to collect the content, which is what many alternatives do). Completely useless for reading paid news.

lxgr 1y ago

My feelings are 30% annoyed (because I still have some data in there), 70% hopeful that a thoroughly mediocre contender is going a way and some more consolidation in this market might finally create critical mass for and focus on some open-source, data-exportable solution in the way Omnivore unfortunately couldn't.

hiccuphippo 1y ago

I loved it when it was called read-it-later and was a standalone add-on. Requiring a Mozilla account made me stop using it.

input_sh 1y ago

I don't think anyone was opposed to Pocket-the-product, but its integration into Firefox. I used it long before Mozilla purchased it and continued to use it for years after, but jumped ship because years went by without any updates to the product. IIRC it hasn't received a single update between approximately 2019 and 2021. It felt abandoned long before today.