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Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, 2025. This is very disappointing as I love the compatibility with my Kobo.

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[–] 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They promised to open source it 7 years ago when they bought it and now they're snatching it out from under users and shutting it down. Mozilla is getting better and better at emulating its Silicon Valley idols

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've lost faith in Mozilla. I really think it would be best to fire the board and start over.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

Good riddance, maybe at least now FF will stop trying to push it so hard.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

(The monkey paw turns, and) we got our wish.

We did it, internet! We killed yet another Firefox revenue stream!

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

my understanding is that Mozilla paid good money for pocket and never made much from it

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They let it rot on the vine. Like their other acquisitions

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they could have worked on improving it, yeah, but then again that would have meant paying working wages instead of raising the salary of the CEO.

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

I'm so fucking tired of marketing speech saying: 'For your benefit, we are stopping this thing you like and use a lot'

It's always always always bullshit, it is NEVER for our benefit but we have to pretend they aren't lying

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely shameful mismanagement. This is really the last straw for me. I've subscribed for years. I'm getting off all the other Mozilla products I subscribe to. On the plus side, this is the kick in the pants I need to finally migrate to a self hosted solution

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean people have constantly been saying that Mozilla needs to focus on Firefox and now they're shutting down the services people were complaining about

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have literally never heard anyone say anything good about pocket, until today where it's apparently mozilla's greatest gift to mankind

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh for crying out loud, stop removing actually useful stuff, Mozilla! The AI junk you're working on? That you can nuke from the orbit. Pocket? Keep it, it's actually useful.

Mozilla is sometimes just... unable to keep actually cool stuff around. I don't know why this keeps happening, because open source development organisations shouldn't work this way.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think it might be that nobody really is using Pocket but plenty of people are using all kinds of AI nonsense. Not sure if they're using Mozilla's though

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always fascinates me to see people take time out of their lives to share that they have no opnion

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Don't care :p

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee -1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh good, now I don't have to disable it anymore when I setup Firefox. Not sure why proprietary tech was ever in my browser in the first place, but I'm glad it's gone.