I wanted to like pocket but the articles were such useless slop crap. I feel bad for writers who actually have a passion for the craft but end up sitting down and shitting out low quality popsci articles all day.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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How about Firefox syncing collections between mobile and desktop? Then we wouldn't NEED Pocket to begin with! ๐คท
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Good riddance.
These companies need to stop pushing 'features' nobody cares about and then complaining they need more funding.
Good, I never used pocket and I never heard of the other thing.
funny. if you point out what sucks about moz before they tell it to their fanbase you're banned. but after moz announced it everbody goes like yeah good decision. the user/fan base has become the top reason to not use FF.
FF is technically backed by GOOGLE advert money.
Taking evil Google money to make something good out of it seems fair enough.
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Well, I guess Iโm getting the opera or Vivaldi app, whatever that browser out of Europe is called. Or is it Brave or something, I forget.
Oh fuck the Kobo reader suddenly became more useless now.
Well no one likes or asked for pocket as far as I know so good riddance.
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Pocket was always among the first things I disabled when setting up Firefox and apparently, I wasn't the only one doing that.... I'm sure it had its users but I always found normal bookmarks to be more convenient.
Never even heard of Fakespot, though.
I used to use Pocket a lot, it was my main way to read long form articles. I somehow stopped doing that years ago as a way to preserve my mental health. Since then I haven't used Pocket once.
Didn't some articles have the pocket icon, and some were without? I remember trying it a number of years ago and being completely flummoxed by not being able to save things I wanted to read. Though it could have been user error.
Fakespot was kinda nice, whenever I looked at something on amazon I'd get a sidebar showing which reviews are real and summarizing them. It's actually pretty useful. Definitely will not miss Pocket.
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I liked Fakespot. Amazon obviously doesn't care whether reviews are legit.
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