Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help (support.mozilla.org)
from roserose56@lemmy.ca to technology@beehaw.org on 22 May 17:59
https://lemmy.ca/post/44560189

Pocket will no longer be available after July 8, 2025.

You can continue using the app and browser extensions until this date. After July 8, Pocket will move into export-only mode. Users can export saves anytime until October 8, 2025, after which user data will be permanently deleted. Why is Pocket shutting down?

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

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Geodad@lemm.ee on 22 May 18:03 next collapse

Good.

roserose56@lemmy.ca on 22 May 18:07 collapse

For me it’s not to be true. I found it useful sharing links from time to time with my phone.

ptz@dubvee.org on 22 May 18:11 next collapse

My Kobo has (er, had) Pocket support, so it was nice, in theory, to save something to Pocket in FF and have it sync to my e-reader. That said, it was kind of glitchy and a lot of sites didn’t seem to work well with it (typically documentation pages for things like Oracle, etc that I’d want to save for offline reference).

djsaskdja@reddthat.com on 23 May 02:42 collapse

If you use Signal it has a note to self feature which is really similar functionally to something like Pocket.

vegetvs@kbin.earth on 22 May 18:35 next collapse

But the way people use the web has evolved

Er... nope.

drolex@sopuli.xyz on 22 May 19:16 next collapse

Ah damn.

Do you know how to replace it (the one-click save for later)? Something that would take the imports from pocket and is well integrated within Firefox?

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 22 May 19:24 next collapse

Pocket used to be a separate extension. Firefox bought it out and integrated it. It could go back to being a separate extension again, I suppose.

Personally, I think this is a good thing. Firefox is looking at some rocky financial times ahead and I'm happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser please. As long as the browser has a good solid framework for extensions then all this extra functionality can be provided by others just as easily.

0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io on 22 May 19:36 collapse

I'm happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser

but thats not what theyre doing. im on mobile so dont have the link handy, but they mention in a different article that they think Pocket has been superseded by AI and tab groups. theyve harvested the bits of it they want and have no use for the consumer service now but its not about narrowing their focus.

FaceDeer@fedia.io on 22 May 20:36 collapse

They can make whatever excuses they want, as long as the result is the same. They need to narrow their focus to serve the browser and this is a step in that direction.

roserose56@lemmy.ca on 22 May 19:34 collapse

I have the same question! If not today, tomorrow will have a search for something similar. I will update you.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 22 May 21:22 collapse

Someone in another thread mentioned Wallabag. Self hosted or paid for the service to be hosted for you.

letraset@feddit.dk on 22 May 23:41 collapse

Wallabag user here for 7 years or so, previous Pocket user, instapaper user before that. Wallabag is good. Not perfect but good. I’m a happy paying subscriber.

It has some challenges with some articles and content here and there, but overall it’s a good alternative. I think my last yearly subscription was €12, so also very affordable. It has a handy export function for individual items, and you can share individual articles publicly. Has an auto tagging functionality which is flexible and very useful.

The annotation feature is not great though, so if that’s important to you, then it might not be your jam.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org on 23 May 22:45 collapse

Glad to hear some feedback from someone who made the same migration. I plan to do so this weekend.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech on 22 May 19:27 next collapse

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading

It did?

we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

So other things no one asked for?

bl4kers@beehaw.org on 23 May 00:47 collapse

I think it was pretty convenient for the specific use case of discovering an article you want to read later on an e-reader. Or so I hear

redshift@lemmy.ml on 24 May 01:33 collapse

Yep - great for that, with the p2k service. I’m pissed that I have to find a service for it again. It might have to be Instapaper, though I don’t like them.

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 22 May 19:33 next collapse

So they forced me to migrate my pocket account to my Mozilla account, breaking login in my Kobo reader and then 6 months later they kill it? Couldn’t just directly kill it?

JayGray91@piefed.social on 23 May 03:37 collapse

O don't use an e-reader, but I remember the stress their migration process gave me. That's when I found omnivore. Unfortunately for me that was 3 months before they have to shut down lol. Now I'm back at Instapaper. Shouldn't have left it for pocket way back then.

Paradox@lemdro.id on 22 May 23:31 next collapse

Good riddance to bad spamware

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 23 May 02:39 collapse

Yep. One of the fist things I set in about:config

extensions.pocket.enabled     false
Lionir@beehaw.org on 23 May 03:31 next collapse

That’s pretty unfortunate. I think Pocket was probably one of the best services that Mozilla offered (outside of Pocket). I find it worrisome if Pocket was not a profitable avenue for them.

I used it for a while as my read-it-later but it ended up being too expensive for the usage I made of it.

I’m pretty worried about Mozilla as a whole. I feel that none of the projects I remember in the past 15 years have actually worked out. Pocket, CommonVoice, Servo, Mozilla Location Services… It’s a shame, really.

I hope for them that Relay and VPN still manage to work out though I’ve never really been interested in either unfortunately.

Hirom@beehaw.org on 25 May 07:16 next collapse

The Android app has a decent read-aloud feature. Hope it will still works after the service closes. I don’t use it for article discovery, nor for sync.

Kissaki@beehaw.org on 25 May 18:25 collapse

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.

What’s the discovery replacement they are referring to here?