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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

If its not turned into a pay thing take it!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thank goodness, my smattering of defunct porn links will be saved

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Digg will take it over?

I'll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

… it’s always been a close sourced subscription service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Enshittified subscription service

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

IMO it was already shitty.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Wish someone had done this for Reader

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago

I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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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