Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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If its not turned into a pay thing take it!
Thank goodness, my smattering of defunct porn links will be saved
Digg will take it over?
I'll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product
… it’s always been a close sourced subscription service.
That last part...
What last part?
Enshittified subscription service
IMO it was already shitty.
Wish someone had done this for Reader
Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.
And while I don't think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.
My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would've been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.
The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.
I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.
I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.
That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?
But I've not used either in many years, and I've never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it's possible Pocket went down that route, too.
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