Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that&#x27;s designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn&#x27;t align with their new direction.<p>I&#x27;d probably be applauding the decision to shut this down if I thought they were doing it to free up resources to increase their focus on the browser, but Mozilla seems to be institutionally committed to chasing its own demise, so I&#x27;m sure they will instead focus on AI integration and other stuff that nobody asked for.<p>Meanwhile, Firefox is still missing proper support for a bunch of modern web features like view transitions and CSS anchor points that are available in every other browser.

I loved Pocket. I used it nearly daily. I was often in their top n% of users. I paid for it. Then one day they changed the way their rendering worked on iOS. And it destroyed my workflow.<p>I also bought a Kobo E-Reader specifically to use Pocket with it. In short order I found an open-source alternative - Omnivore - and spent my time hacking away at my Kobo to get it to pull from there instead. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Podginator&#x2F;KoboOmnivoreConverter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Podginator&#x2F;KoboOmnivoreConverter</a><p>I think Pocket was amazing. I think the idea worked amazingly for someone like me, who is an enjoyer of reading, but had a hard time finding a moment to sit down and do it.<p>I am upset that Pocket is going. I am upset that Omnivore shut down. I am upset that my Kobo will probably remove that integration and thus ruin my Self-Hosted Omnivore&#x27;s integration with it.<p>I think it could have been a lot, lot more.

One thing that unfortunately never got properly announced, is that over time Pocket was slowly open sourced piece-by-piece, mostly as it got rewritten&#x2F;modernised, as I understand it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Pocket&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Pocket&#x2F;</a><p>I guess the fact that it wasn&#x27;t a big bang source code dump made it hard to make a moment of it.<p>(Note: open-source does not necessarily mean that it was optimised for self-hosting, which would&#x27;ve been a lot more work, of course.)

&gt; Your export file will include links (URLs) of your saved items. The export does not extract the text of saved links. Additionally, the export does not contain tags or highlights.<p>boo! without the tags, the links will be mostly useless for me. Every now and then I thought aboyt switching to some self-hosted solution. Should&#x27;ve done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

I built Obsidian Web Clipper (open source, MIT) to replace my read-it-later app and save everything to local markdown files. Now that Obsidian Bases is available, it makes for a very nice web archival tool and reading experience. Here&#x27;s a video:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@kepano&#x2F;114553164915046938" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@kepano&#x2F;114553164915046938</a><p>You can use Web Clipper with any app that supports Markdown, not just Obsidian.<p>Defuddle is the underlying HTML-to-Markdown library I made for Web Clipper, and can also be used as a CLI:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kepano&#x2F;defuddle">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kepano&#x2F;defuddle</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kepano&#x2F;defuddle-cli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kepano&#x2F;defuddle-cli</a>

Sad to see Fakespot shutdown after purchase. I rely on Fakespot for a sort of ground-truth when navigating Amazon. When faced with 20 similar items, all having thousands of faked review scores, it was helpful to get the A-F rating. While these tools didn&#x27;t really need to live in the browser, by purchasing and then killing them, they&#x27;ve done the web a disservice.<p>&quot;Fakespot&#x27;s analysis of online shopping reviews didn&#x27;t fit a model we could sustain&quot;<p>I feel like you figure that out before you purchase the largest tool for analyzing and detecting fake product reviews.

Super bummed about this.<p>I know a surprising number of high profile CEOs and founders who live by Pocket, really has just been quietly reliable and simple way to reserve content for later.<p>Despite there being so many other $apps that can fill the gap here, none of them seem to be as clean and straightforward as Pocket has been for me.<p>Anyone here paying for Matter or Readwise? I know Instapaper may seem to be the obvious migration path, but since my landlord is kicking me out, maybe it’s time I move to a more robust solution.

I really enjoyed <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waldenpond.press&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;waldenpond.press&#x2F;</a> when it was up and running. They selected articles from your pocket once a month and then printed, bound, and mailed them to you. When I discovered the service I had a 500 hour reading backlog, and for $14&#x2F;mo I was getting 100+ page books of self-curated content. They were perfect for flights, trips, and lending out. I was able to force it to include recipes as well, and I still find myself referencing them frequently.

&gt; Why is Pocket shutting down?<p>&gt; 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.<p>Oh yeah, it explains everything.<p>I wish one day a company pr representative will be bold enough to just say &quot;we don&#x27;t want to tell you&quot;.

Everytime people talked about Mozilla or Firefox the main complaint was Pocket. Everytime. Yet most people here are sad to see it go. What gives?

I wish I could just buy out Mozilla outright so that they could you know, focus on building a browser. Alas, my wallets nowhere near big enough to do so.<p>Leave all the business ventures to a completely different (named too) org. I grow tired of them starting something great and then stopping because they&#x27;ve wasted funds. Like oxidizing Firefox I was really excited for. Sadly they stopped while they had broken amazing ground.

There are a ton of bookmarking software, and good, and self-hosted.<p>- karakeep<p>- grimoire<p>- omnivore<p>- wallabag<p>- linkwarden<p>I myself use RSS reader &#x2F; bookmark manager that I wrote [1]. Everything is open source. Even data [2] [3].<p>Links<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Django-link-archive">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Django-link-archive</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Internet-Places-Database">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;Internet-Places-Database</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;RSS-Link-Database">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rumca-js&#x2F;RSS-Link-Database</a>

Wow, after Instapaper went back to indie from Pinterest[1] and Omnivore closing last year this is no longer surprising. This is also proof that read-it-later app as a category is not sustainable as a venture &#x2F; company backed service.<p>This is also a category of app that I believe could be better served by local-first native apps. As there is no reason why a server has to be requirement to enjoy the full service. Your computer is fully capable of interacting with these webpages directly....<p>On Apple ecosystem, there are few alternatives one can migrate to. I also created an app that target this category (and more) called DoubleMemory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doublememory.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doublememory.com</a> that has a few different takes as well:<p>- no registration needed (icloud sync)<p>- no extension required (just double command + c)<p>- launches from menu bar as a launcher, in a stunning Pinterest-style waterfall grid<p>It&#x27;s all free to use with no limits, as i&#x27;m still working on paid features. I&#x27;ll work on a pocket importer for these who are interested in migrating.<p>^[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.instapaper.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;175953870856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.instapaper.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;175953870856</a>

Seems like official export [0] has tags and annotations along with timestamps. However in case you&#x27;d like more structured full data from the API (instead of a mess with csv + json?), you can use my tool [1] to export it. Here&#x27;s example of its output [2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;export" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;export</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karlicoss&#x2F;pockexport?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-up">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karlicoss&#x2F;pockexport?tab=readme-ov-file#s...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karlicoss&#x2F;pockexport&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;example-output.json">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karlicoss&#x2F;pockexport&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;example-...</a>

I&#x27;ve been building a pocket alternative that also bundles an RSS editor (RIP google reader) and a light blogging platform.<p>The idea is basically to bundle the saving, discovering and sharing content through the same product. I&#x27;ve been using it for a year and it works beautifully.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fika.bar" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fika.bar</a><p>And you can see my bookmarks&#x2F;posts here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fika.bar&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;paoramen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fika.bar&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;paoramen</a>

I have used Wallabag[0] for read-later articles for many years. Very happy about it. I host it on a VPS but they offer a paid instance[1] themselves for $9&#x2F;y. And otherwise you can use something like Pikapods[2] which is also dirt cheap.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallabag&#x2F;wallabag">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wallabag&#x2F;wallabag</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.it&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wallabag.it&#x2F;en</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pikapods.com&#x2F;apps" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pikapods.com&#x2F;apps</a>

Is the shutdown date possibly related to this info I was able to find from the DOJ?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-department-implements-critical-national-security-program-protect-americans-sensitive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;opa&#x2F;pr&#x2F;justice-department-implements...</a><p>&gt; As explained in NSD’s Data Security Program Implementation and Enforcement Policy Through July 8, 2025, NSD will not prioritize civil enforcement actions against any person for violations of the Data Security Program that occur from April 8 through July 8, 2025, so long as the person is engaging in good faith efforts to comply with or come into compliance with the Data Security Program during that time. These efforts include engaging in compliance activities described in that policy, such as amending or renegotiating existing contracts, conducting internal reviews of data flows, deploying the CISA security requirements, and so on.<p>&gt; At the end of this 90-day period, individuals, and entities should be in full compliance with the DSP. This policy does not limit NSD’s lawful authority and discretion to pursue civil enforcement if entities and individuals did not engage in good faith efforts to comply with, or come into compliance with, the Data Security Program.

They should at least allow to download their copy of the saved articles, PDF or HTML or whatever format they save it in.<p>This is such a betrayal. Some old links might not exist anymore, so it&#x27;s useless to only get the links.<p>EDIT: Betrayal, because the main reason I paid for Pocket was the archiving of articles and now I can&#x27;t actually export the archived copies.<p>Their decision of not enabling export of the archived copies now makes it very unlikely that I&#x27;ll ever pay for any of their paid services in the future.<p>A shame really because I like supporting Firefox as a browser.

I used Pocket until they remove the ability to save page as offline (moved to premium tier afak) and also shoving sponsored content here and there.<p>I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than ~~useless~~ useful to me.<p>[1]Raindrop.io

I remember requesting the source code after they bought it[1]. They kept kicking the can down the road. It looks like they dumped everything in a monorepo on Github[2] which does nothing good for anyone.<p>Seems like Mozilla is dead-set on grinding up any good will they get from users.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.mozilla.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;pocket-source-code&#x2F;43686&#x2F;11" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.mozilla.org&#x2F;t&#x2F;pocket-source-code&#x2F;43686&#x2F;11</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Pocket&#x2F;pocket-monorepo">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Pocket&#x2F;pocket-monorepo</a>

Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.

here&#x27;s the list of alternatives, extracted from this thread:<p>Instapaper is a good alternative.<p>Readwise Reader is a strong paid alternative, especially for heavy users and those wanting integration with tools like Obsidian.<p>Raindrop.io is a useful alternative, including its free tier and permanent copy feature.<p>Matter is another alternative that has been tried.<p>Self-hosted options like Wallabag, Linkding, Linkwarden, Karakeep, Omnivore, and Shiori exist.<p>Obsidian Web Clipper can save articles as markdown locally.<p>Other less common or custom solutions include Feedly, Histre, Walden Pond (defunct print service), Lighthouse, Full Sort, DoubleMemory (Apple ecosystem), Ulry.app, WordPress plugins, simple text files&#x2F;spreadsheets, or custom scripts.<p>(Full summary here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extraakt.com&#x2F;extraakts&#x2F;mozilla-pocket-shutdown-discussion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;extraakt.com&#x2F;extraakts&#x2F;mozilla-pocket-shutdown-discu...</a>

I would say I was sad to see it go, but I moved to karakeep (formerly known as Hoarder) a few months ago and it&#x27;s been a perfect replacement. Most importantly, you can self-host it - which is great.<p>One thing that stood out to me in the article was this this to justify the shutdown<p>&gt; 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.<p>I&#x27;d be really interested to hear what exactly they mean by this, are people visiting fewer websites? Walled gardens like facebook etc make it useless for bookmarking so I can see how pocket would be a bad fit there

A little surprised to see the sadness regarding something that seemed to be universally scorned whenever it was brought up. I never tried it and don&#x27;t really have an opinion, but why couldn&#x27;t this functionality be created as an extension (possibly connecting to a 3rd party service? I don&#x27;t know why that would be necessary. Can extensions throw stuff into firefox sync?)?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;building-whats-next&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;building-whats-next&#x2F;</a>

Ugh, and that only months after Omnivore (a really great FOSS &quot;read it later&quot; app) shut down.<p>The one constant of &quot;save your favorite articles and websites offline, forever&quot; apps seems to be that they&#x27;re... very much not forever.<p>In my view, this not being a native, interoperable feature of web browsers is a failure of the web. I&#x27;ll be able to listen to a podcast episode I&#x27;ve downloaded as an MP3 forever, and the same goes for ePub books (if they don&#x27;t have DRM in any case) – so why is the same so hard for blog posts and articles?

I&#x27;m very sad about this. The one feature that I really like is that you could read articles offline. Any good alternatives?<p>(saves this HN post to Pocket to come back to it later to see replies)

Saving links and offline reading is dime a dozen nowadays, but the one BIG feature was recommended articles, which basically opened the reading list of the world and you could read extremely interesting longform articles based on your list. It was the best magazine you could imagine. But I guess it required maintenance and moderation so they axed it - in the typical fashion of an acquired product I might say.<p>I still wish for something like this with privacy in mind and community maintained.

They bought pocket for at least 5 million, what a waste of money.

I started using Pocket in 2012 and have used it ever since (though I’ll obviously have to stop now). It was a great way to save interesting articles I didn’t have time to read right away. Naturally, I rarely got around to actually reading them, and the backlog kept growing. I just exported my data and found 13,000 unread articles out of a total of 34,000.<p>I can’t help but picture the Distracted Boyfriend meme, &quot;reading my saved articles&quot; vs &quot;discovering new cool articles online to add to the ever-growing Pocket backlog, never to be read.&quot;

I feel bad saying I&#x27;m happy that they&#x27;re shutting it down, but it should never have been built into the browser and forced on people.<p>Focus on making a decent browser and let extensions be extensions.

When Mozilla got Pocket, they advertised it all over Firefox to increase adoption. Back then, I was like &quot;but I already have a bookmark feature&quot;. Over all these years I have hidden the Pocket button away because for most people there&#x27;s no strong incentive to switch from a normal bookmarking solution (and now, with only a hand full of websites in major use, even bookmarks have lost all meaning).<p>Good riddance?

I have exported all my Pocket data using TAKEOUT. But how do I make sense of the time_added column? For example what does 1491409103 mean in date&#x2F;time? I am using Excel.

I have exported my Pocket data TAKE OUT and I have all my links But how do I make sense of the time_added column? Can I convet 1491409103 to a date &#x2F; time in Excel?

Hard to say if I cared a wit for pocket, but fakespot was useful.

I&#x27;m strangely sad about this, even though this became yet another place for my bookmarks to go to die.

This sucks :(<p>I&#x27;ve been using Pocket for I don&#x27;t know how long. I use it every day during my commute to read articles from everywhere. I was planning on using it on my 3-week multi-country summer vacation this August to occupy me during all the country hopping I was about to do.<p>This is a Google Reader killing type event for me.<p>I&#x27;m going to go self-hosted next. I&#x27;m sick and tired of this crap.

Mozilla continues to appear to not get the philosophies behind open source. If they really wanted to help people and not simply try to get market share and make money, they&#x27;d examine ways to make Pocket itself open source, including the server end of things.<p>&quot;We&#x27;re handing this over to a non-profit&quot; would be nice.

I had submitted the Mozilla blog post about this and Fakespot (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44063930">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44063930</a>) but this submission seems to have received the traction. I added a comment to my submission pointing here.

Might save someone a few clicks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;export" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getpocket.com&#x2F;export</a>

Upon reading this at first I was like &quot;Oh, crap!&quot;, but then after a minute I realized that I wasn&#x27;t bother to export my saved articles... it was basically digital hoarding, for me, I think. While I did use it, I likely won&#x27;t miss it.

One issue I&#x27;ve had with read-it-later apps is that I end up accumulating far too many articles and never actually reading them. Now my approach is simple: if I see something I want to read, I either read it immediately or never.

I&#x27;ve always just used Instapaper. It feels weird to use a web service for something that feels like it should be local, though. I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;m approaching this the right way.

I think this is good, I&#x27;d like to see more side projects that don&#x27;t directly relate to the core web browser shutdown in favour of browser performance, compliance and feature parity.

I wonder if they’d be willing to sell it to the right group of folks. I’d love to have a community owned read it later service. Otherwise, we’re all on a never ending treadmill from one service to the next.

I used Pocket before Mozilla and in the early days of Mozilla ownership, but it was becoming less reliable by the day. I switched to SingleFile[1] and sync the dir between my tablet and laptop using Syncthing. No SaaS, everything stays on my network - works great.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getsinglefile.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getsinglefile.com&#x2F;</a>

Crap. My Kobo Libra supports Pocket as its only built-in way to get articles onto the device. I use GoodLinks to store links I like, and have a Shortcut that copies new articles from GoodLinks to Pocket. If I’m reading something interesting but long, I bookmark it, and that evening it’s on my ereader waiting for me.<p>It’s a nice setup. I’ll miss it. There’s not a great replacement, either. Even if I create a GoodLinks-to-epub pipe or something, now all those articles will be mixed in with my books and magazines. I don’t want to have to pick through a hundred random articles to find the next book I want to read.<p>Mozilla, hear me out: what if, just <i>what it</i>, you drop some of the AI stuff you’re blowing cash on that people who use Firefox often actively dislike? Could you shave a percent off that and use it to fund Pocket instead?

Pocket is a bit like Pinterest: It’s actually a joy to use, but it has a significant number of haters because it’s forced on people who don’t want it.<p>This is why, as a non-user, I’m celebrating its death for the simple reason that it won’t be integrated in Firefox anymore.<p>Mozilla completely did this to themselves.

So Mozilla is shutting down Pocket completely by July, and this is under their new CEO Laura Chambers who took over in February 2024. Meanwhile Mitchell Baker - who was pulling in $6.9M by 2022 - just bailed out entirely this February after &quot;focusing on AI and internet safety&quot; for exactly one year.<p>Let me get this straight: Baker&#x27;s salary went from $2.4M in 2018 to nearly $7M in 2022, while browser share collapsed to 3.45%. During that time she laid off 320 employees (70 in Jan 2020, 250 in Aug 2020), claiming COVID despite record revenues in 2019. Then she steps down as CEO to &quot;focus on AI,&quot; only to quit Mozilla entirely a year later.<p>Now the new CEO&#x27;s brilliant strategy is to kill off Pocket - one of the few products people actually used that they acquired in 2017. Eight years of &quot;investment&quot; down the drain.<p>This is exactly what I mean when I say Mozilla has no fucking clue what they&#x27;re doing. They&#x27;re completely dependent on Google&#x27;s search money, executives are getting rich while laying off workers, and their response to irrelevance is to shut down working products. The whole organization feels like it exists just so Google can point to it and say &quot;we&#x27;re not a monopoly.&quot;

I stopped[0] using RIL and Firefox almost at the same time - when it was &quot;bundled&quot;. Kind of never returned. I wish RIL survived w&#x2F;o getting bundled into Firefox or rather Firefox kept steadfast at browser work.<p>Later I also realised that for someone like me a RIL is like the IMDb Watchlist - never to be acted upon and just for accumulating even though I save bookmarks as well [1]. Now I add URLs to Reminders app as a TODO, when I have to do it; and I do it rarely but when I do I act on it (sooner).<p>[0] (Firefox use change: stopped as in from the &quot;only browser anywhere&quot; to maybe once in a week or few times a month usage on desktop&quot;).<p>[1] (Is there a bookmarking tool&#x2F;app that triggers a Internet Archive save or checks whether it&#x27;s saved upon &quot;save bookmark&quot; request?)

Damn, this one really hurts.<p>I&#x27;ve been a massive user since Read It Later. I used to get year-in-review emails telling me I was in the top 1% of users. For a period of several years, I read an astounding amount via Pocket. It is very tightly intertwined with my time on HN, as most headlines I&#x27;m interested in get immediately saved to Pocket.<p>My usage dropped a lot when I stopped commuting via the subway (where offline was critical), and a lot of my media consumption switched to podcasts, over time. I always thought Pocket could have gone multimedia, and in a world in which they supported podcasts, I would have loved to have everything in one spot. Newsletters, too.<p>But, I&#x27;m not surprised that the end has come, considering they stayed in their lane. Also, if the Google default search gravy train is about to disappear, this is one of the consequences. The idea that Tab Groups are a replacement is laughable.<p>I wonder if this is the sort of thing that could live on as a community project?

The think I liked about pocket was the integration with my Kobo ebook reader. I could browse the web on my phone or laptop and &quot;add to pocket&quot; for later, then could fire up my ereader and read the articles formatted nicely on my epaper screen.<p>Would be nice if Kobo supported some other service, but a bit of a stretch to imagine they&#x27;d support something self hosted or an open standard for such things

I&#x27;m actually excited about this - it&#x27;s one less thing I need to disable in `about:config`. I&#x27;ve always been confused as to why pocket is integrated directly into the browser as opposed to being a browser extension.

It&#x27;s a shame to hear Pocket is shutting down. Adding another option to the mix, I&#x27;d like to share my open-source project, &quot;ato de yomu&quot; (which means &quot;read it later&quot; in Japanese). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atodeyomu.morishin.me&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;atodeyomu.morishin.me&#x2F;</a><p>You can save web pages to read later, track your reading history, and share your lists—or keep them private. It supports adding pages via the website, iOS Share Sheet, Chrome Extension, API call and etc.<p>It&#x27;s open-source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;morishin&#x2F;atodeyomu.morishin.me">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;morishin&#x2F;atodeyomu.morishin.me</a><p>I previously shared it on HN here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41649998">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41649998</a><p>Hope some of you find it a useful alternative!

Seems Obsidian Web Clipper is a good alternative, it can save as markdown so you own the data offline. Anyone tried it? What is your experience?

I use pocket all the time to save articles to read on my kobo, which has a pretty good first-party integration in the OS.<p>I wonder what Rakuten are going to do.

I stopped using Pocket a long time ago when they started ruining the experience. When Omnivore shut down, I switched over to Raindrop.io. I now use it for bookmarking and built a simple cloud function to easily post links with a specific tag to a Daring Fireball-style link blog I host on Ghost. While Raindrop isn’t open source, it does offer useful browser extensions with features like highlights, notes, and tags—making it a handy tool for quickly blogging and &#x2F; or bookmarking things I stumble across. I open sourced the cloud function.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danielraffel&#x2F;raindrop-to-ghost-sync">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danielraffel&#x2F;raindrop-to-ghost-sync</a>

It&#x27;s a shame, I have been a Pocket user for a long time and I use it daily with my Kobo e-reader now. It was also a little money from me every month for Mozilla, I use Firefox so I felt like it was worth it.

This made me sad because I served my need so well. Now I will have to think about alternatives. I wish they could open-source it.

switched from Pocket to Readwise Reader last year, haven’t looked back. It’s a paid app ($10&#x2F;month) but totally worth it IMO

I&#x27;ve got years of saved articles in there and the export situation is pretty bad. It only gives you the URLs, not the actual content. So if a site goes down (which happens all the time), you&#x27;re basically screwed.<p>I&#x27;m thinking about throwing Claude Code at this problem and building a proper exporter that actually saves the content.

Pocket and other similar services always ended up becoming a virtual junk drawer for me, as I was just hoarding content to consume when I have free time, but time never realyl freed itself up and content just kept pilling in. In the end, it just became one of those annoying things that I have to disable on a new installation of Firefox.

I&#x27;ve used Pocket in combination with the In My Pocket add-on for a very long time on a daily basis. I don&#x27;t particularly care about the online specific features, I don&#x27;t care about syncing, or any of that. I&#x27;ve used Pocket specifically as a better and quicker Bookmarking tool than the browser&#x27;s default to save pages I want to read later, simple as that and it worked flawlessly.<p>Now I&#x27;m forced to find something similar, and I found Save-to-Read which does mostly what I need, although it feels a bit jankier.<p>I understand why people have hated this app for a very long time and blamed Mozilla for investing into it, but to me it has always had value by doing what tools were meant to do, make my life easier, even if that&#x27;s just about saving a few clicks every time I wanted to save a page or dismiss it.

Another feature no one asked for, meeting its technological grave. For those few users of Pocket this function could have been easily handled as an extension.<p>If Mozilla spent the engineering hours wasted on this toward fixing the ever growing mountain of existing bugs they might have more than 1% market share.

I recently migrated to Linkwarden [0] from Pocket, and have been happy with the decision.<p>Linkwarden is open source and self-hostable.<p>I wrote a python package [1] to ease the migration of Pocket exports to Linkwarden.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fmhall&#x2F;pocket2linkwarden">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fmhall&#x2F;pocket2linkwarden</a>

Very sad to see Pocket. I had briefly been a paid user. Really shocked, not sure what is an easy alternative beyond Pinterest, which itself a nightmare nowadays.

My specific need is I like to reference articles I&#x27;ve read later, quickly. I was using Pocket to track links to articles I&#x27;ve read, keeping them categorized with tags. It&#x27;s been a mediocre solution for this need (e.g. I&#x27;d like to add more metadata, such as notes), but I haven&#x27;t found too many apps&#x2F;products that serve this use case.<p>What&#x27;s nice about Pocket is that I can do this from any browser on any device, since it has integrations and an app for mobile devices. Trying to do this with a note taking app is much more clunky and frictional. Especially when trying to quickly find an article I had saved.<p>Anyway, if anyone knows something that fits this use case better, it looks like I&#x27;m in the market for it now

I used and liked Pocket.<p>The main reason I stopped using it was that I found myself less often in offline spaces, which is when I used the reading part to catch up on interesting long articles.<p>Once planes, trains, countryside, foreign countries etc had good enough and&#x2F;or cheap enough connectivity it mattered less to have offline reading material.<p>On the other side, competitors for those offline spots arose like Netflix letting you download episodes.<p>My dedicated ebook reader, which I had Pocket installed on, suffered similarly neglect. Phones got bigger and better enough.

A bunch of alternatives were already mentioned. If you’re looking for an rss feed reader that can also save links directly, Lighthouse[1] may be an option.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lighthouseapp.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lighthouseapp.io&#x2F;</a>

I was a premium user of pocket for almost a decade before mozilla bought it and I remained a user for another few years after the acquisition. Mozilla turned it into garbage that didn&#x27;t even do it&#x27;s job properly and it is a bit sad to see it shut down.

Mozilla fell into the trap of buying services and focusing all their efforts on integrating them without improving them. Mozilla needs to focus on their browser&#x27;s UI. Nobody is going to buy into their ecosystem unless the browser is good. Arc Browser is the direction they need to go in. Firefox first got popular because its UI was radically better than anything else out there at the time.

So what did this do?<p>The comments lead me to believe it was an extension or application for saving web pages in a more readable form for a personal archive type thing.<p>However the obituary mentions curation and an editorial team.<p>Did they select the info for you or it was your own choice?

&gt; 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<p>Wasn&#x27;t Pocket always trying to resist bad web trends? If I recall, they had a tool that would clean up webpages and remove all the junk so you can just focus on the article contents. And they were also trying to save the concept of bookmarking from complete irrelevance. I guess it&#x27;s understandable that users didn&#x27;t care, it was an uphill battle for non-power users, and power uses didn&#x27;t like the sponsored articles and already had their bookmarks saved outside of Pocket.

While the Kobo app is still available an alternative might be:<p>Self-Host Omnivore: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omnivore-app&#x2F;omnivore&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;self-hosting&#x2F;GUIDE.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;omnivore-app&#x2F;omnivore&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;self-host...</a><p>Use this proxy to point to the Self-Hosted instance to pull from Omnivore Instead. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Podginator&#x2F;KoboOmnivoreConverter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Podginator&#x2F;KoboOmnivoreConverter</a><p>This is what I&#x27;ve been doing for a year or so now. I hope they don&#x27;t remove the Kobo integration code from my Kobo.

This really hurts. All my content consumption workflow depends on Pocket, I shortlist from my rss reader (inoreader) directly into pocket, then ot gets synced with readwise reader automatically where I listen to the chosen articles [1]. I also use my pocket account&#x27;s archive as a collection of the articles and writings I have liked (planning to build a personal and simple content recommendation system for myself). [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saeedesmaili.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;my-content-consumption-workflow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;saeedesmaili.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;my-content-consumption-workfl...</a>

IIRC they promised to make Pocket open source, but I&#x27;m not sure if the back end ever was. Does anyone know if this is the case?<p>Seems like a big win for Instapaper, who will likely pick up a lot of Pocket&#x27;s abandoned users.

This might be a more manual solution for Kobo imports, but I&#x27;ve taken to saving pages of interest via Joplin&#x27;s web clipper extension. Pages can be saved as Markdown, HTML, screenshot, or URL. If I save the Markdown version (typically looks fine), it will have also saved linked images. Exporting that to another folder gives me something that I can convert to epub, using Pandoc. From there, it&#x27;s trivial to copy over to my Kobo as before. Of course, this already would have been readable on my phone, since my notebooks also sync across devices.

They were told it was a mistake to buy it, they didn&#x27;t listen, like they never listen. I used to love the organization but it&#x27;s so resistant to outside input that I had to leave the community about 12 years ago.

Can we get a list going of the best substitutes and the pros&#x2F;cons? Thanks.

I have never relied on a browser for &quot;favorites&quot; or &quot;bookmarks&quot;<p>I keep these links in a separate org-mode file, but honestly a spreadsheet or even a text file would be fine for that too.<p>Why does everything have to be complicated?

I remember using Pocket briefly and wondering what the purpose of it was when you could just save bookmarks in any stock web browser.

I abandoned Pocket a while ago. I believe the offline mode was unreliable. Instapaper has been a really good replacement for me. My use case is to queue up articles to read on my iPad without distractions.

It is about time<p>With search and search history so powerful and handy, when did we go back to a bookmark or pocket saved item?<p>Now with AI it&#x27;s even more irrelevant, those days of FOMO is over<p>Information is at our fingertips and we can get to it in any time, it&#x27;s the new ERA!

There are so many great non-browser read-it-later bookmarking solutions these days. There open-source self hosted solutions as well as many free&#x2F;paid hosted solutions with generous free plans, with some pretty advanced paid features. Pocket has stagnated for a decade except for a poorly thought through UX redesign. The paid plan has almost nothing to offer except ereader integration, and there is a handful of others that offer that these days.

Truth be told, my relationship with Pocket has dipped significantly over the years. According to my email, I signed up for Read It Later in March of 2011, which coincided with the release of their Android beta. It was the first thing I installed on every new browser or phone, and for many years, my end of the year recap had me at the top 1% of readers.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if I changed, the web did, or what, but I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ve saved anything to Pocket in 2025, and probably just a handful in 2024.<p>But still, to Nate and the Read it Later&#x2F;Pocket team. Thank you.

Never heard of Fakespot, but Pocket is a loss. I don&#x27;t use it as much anymore, but it was a very convenient way to keep my reading queue. I mean, honestly, it didn&#x27;t really solve the problem for me completely, because I saved way more that I read, but at some point I relied on it heavily.

This hurts. I used pocket as a &quot;read later&quot; or &quot;will not read now&quot; tool.<p>I think a smarter move in this context is to pass the product (even much simplified) to a company that can maintain it.

So they have been ignoring all feature requests and bug reports to Firefox&#x27;s &quot;bookmarks&quot;, directing users to Pocket. All the while also gutting and eventually shutting down Pocket.<p>Where do I go to have basic bookmarking functionality in my web browser? Tags for example, will those ever work on mobile? Keywords? Can I even search for a bookmark on mobile (not to go there, but to find its location in my bookmark folders, and edit it)?

It says (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;exporting-your-pocket-list" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;kb&#x2F;exporting-your-pocket-l...</a>) there is supposed to be an &quot;Export HTML file&quot; button, I only see export CSV file. Wrong documentation?

Pocket was very convenient to send random articles to my Kobo, which comes with a Pocket integration. Great for reading long blog posts and such, easier on the eyes. Will miss it.

Can someone explain what this means?<p>&gt;Focusing on what powers better browsing We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.<p>Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved,<p>Did Fakespot own pocket? I still use fakespot as an additional marker in my research of purchases.

Well, crap. I&#x27;ve had a Pocket account for more than ten years. It&#x27;s a key feature on my Kobo devices, to boot.<p>I hope Kobo manages to find some alternative provider for similar functionality, rather than just dropping it altogether.<p>EDIT: Oh, and worth noting that this product will officially die before Mozilla fulfills its promise to open source it, back when they acquired Pocket. Thanks, guys.

Dang, like many others I use Pocket extensively - especially with my Kobo e-reader. This is very sad!<p>I wrote this Deno script to convert the CSV export to a Netscape Bookmark File Format-compatible HTML-file so that it can be imported to Linkding. Hope it&#x27;s useful for someone else too! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;enjikaka&#x2F;pocket-to-bookmark">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;enjikaka&#x2F;pocket-to-bookmark</a>

Why can&#x27;t Mozilla open source Pocket?

Does anybody know a good service providing an API capable of categorizing URLs? I have a big collection of unsorted bookmarks I want to categorize by subject. I was planning to use Pocket for this. Is there any good alternative?

We shut down a service called teamgum about 10 Years ago. Our service was priced 0 initially and had huge number of users. It was meant to share articles amongst a team and later on Google search show articles already discovered by colleagues which can be helpful. I remember Tucker m pocket was around then or was just launched.

I&#x27;ve used Pocket from back when they were called &quot;Read it later&quot; and have saved just shy of 30k articles. They&#x27;ve gotten worse recently, but when I tried other apps (instapaper, getmatter, raindrop, paperspan, omnivore) they all had their own issues. Now I have to give those apps another try...

I&#x27;ll always remember finding that Pocket had exposed their Redux dev tools to production and they had a &quot;dev panel&quot; you could open that allowed you to bypass all the payment walls (for example switching fonts, layouts, etc). Never used Pocket though, so it didn&#x27;t do much for me besides being fun to find.

It would probably make more sense to link to the blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;building-whats-next&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;building-whats-next&#x2F;</a><p>Also, it&#x27;s not just Pocket, it&#x27;s also Fakespot, which I didn&#x27;t even know existed.

Replying to deleted comment by jsheard:<p>&gt; Mozilla never did reveal how much they paid for Pocket, did they?<p>They raised a series B for $5M if that helps ballpark it for you.

I migrated all my pocket saves to a self-hosted Karakeep (previously Hoarder) instance a few months ago. No issues with the import and I’ve been happy with using it thus far.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karakeep-app&#x2F;karakeep">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karakeep-app&#x2F;karakeep</a>

Such a shame and wasted potential. Mozilla could have turned Pocket into a read it later + RSS reader killer combo that would have closed the browsing loop across the web on Firefox. But they slept on it, actively worsening it and finally putting it out of its misery. This is an end of an era and it has such a chime of finality to it.

Sort of peculiar that a company that is based on and makes open source software wouldn&#x27;t wind down Pocket as a product but release it to the community. I don&#x27;t have any particular wish to use it--I moved on years ago--but it&#x27;s odd at a sort of ethical level that Mozilla, of all companies, would disappear software.

(shameless plug)<p>I didn’t like Pocket, so I worked on my own link archiver years ago [0].<p>UI inspired by HN, a list of links you saved + tags filtering. Plain and simple, less features but does the job for me. I’m actually looking for users to try it out as I have not yet publicized it that much.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ulry.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ulry.app</a>

My little side project has been chugging along for those looking for (harder to use) variation of Pocket.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinygem.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinygem.org</a><p>The main advantage is that content recommendations based on previously saved content are pretty good, especially for tech oriented crowd.

I was using Pocket to save articles to listen to in the car, with their ok TTS feature. Does anyone know of an easy solution that allows me to click to save an article, and then have it automatically on an app on my phone so I can listen while I drive?

I&#x27;ll miss it dearly. I use it to sync articles to kobo, almost daily. I don&#x27;t even knew they were thinking on pulling the plug. I don&#x27;t know of any alternatives. I&#x27;ll be happy to self host if I can sync with kobo.

We have been working on Full Sort for a while now. Lots of features to be a contender but not bloated either. Take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fullsort.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fullsort.com</a>.<p>Demo without signup. Upon signup the service is free. Not mining your data either.

Finally, it was so annoying in my browser

I&#x27;ve never used Pocket, so I can&#x27;t comment on feature parity, but for people looking for an alternative I&#x27;ve been using Instapaper for years and have been very happy with it. The founders recently bought it back from Pinterest and have been making steady improvements.

Pocket had already been wokified, one of the main categories of trending news right at the top was some diversity category of sorts. Couldn&#x27;t get rid of it.<p>Seemed like it was on life support anyway.

Backflip to Delicious to Pocket.<p>Why isn’t there a simple bookmarking solution that can survive technology shifts?

I tried saving named links in a text file, offline reading in Wallabag, full archiving with Archivebox, and fancier bookmarking&#x2F;tagging with Karakeep. I found each does a bit of what I want so I now use <i>all four</i>. Heh

I have been using Pocket + p2k for long articles that I prefer to read on Kindle. There are several issues with the setup, but this works well enough for most articles that I have sticked to it over the years. Looks like I have to find an alternative now.

I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer).<p>Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-later app, but almost!

I&#x27;ll take it off their hands.

Is there anything (preferabbly local-first, and sync with dropbox or any other service) that simply snips the article (preferably using simlar tech as &quot;reader mode&quot;), and something that supports other media? (youtube videos, instagram reels, etc)

That&#x27;s a pretty good display of the nonsense of SaaS. Someone who has paid for premium will find itself with a shitty export that won&#x27;t be usable without investing a lot of time into importing somewhere else or making some sort of software to exploit it.<p>And there is no way to prolong its useful life by keeping an old system around or make it work in a VM. Subscription software is a travesty and only cares about extracting the most money from customers. It&#x27;s not even worth much in terms of compute requirements because you still need to invest in decent hardware for other softwares (that most likely won&#x27;t ever be able to be fully remote).<p>Web software isn&#x27;t bad but the hostage situation it allows is pretty bad. But then again, even Apple with their pride in native local software has pushed subscription to extract the most money possible, so... Greed is such a destructive sin.

First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.

I you looking for an alternative, Flus[1] from FreshRss creator Marien Fressinaud is great and FOSS !<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flus.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flus.fr&#x2F;</a>

<i>Oh no, what happened? Oh no, how terrible! That&#x27;s just awful, how terrible oh no!</i> [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPQFF0oqsto" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=gPQFF0oqsto</a>

I was a very heavy pocket user and loved it, but around 2019 they changed their Discover tab, so you could no longer see the source of the article.<p>The pages were listed as ‘Pocket’ source, and they windowed the original article in a pocket page with ads

Why not try sell Pocket instead of shutting it down? Seems like such a waste

I wonder how much ongoing cost this would endure for a solo developer.<p>I would be more than happy to sustain this if it&#x27;s not too terrible.<p>How do i acquire this?

So you are saying the articles I&#x27;ve been saving to &quot;read later&quot; for nearly a decade are never gonna get read?<p>Who&#x27;d have thunk?

It is a time to rejoice and celebrate, for a product that never should have existed has died today.<p>This follows the long history of projects like Google+ and hopefully others like Facebook Watch will follow soon.

Annoying, I used this. It seems self-hosted wallabag might be the way to go.

Products going away is saddening and maddening but if there’s demand surely these good ideas should be fought over.<p>What’s going on for the market not to stably fill this gap? Is there no workable price point?

There should be a poison pill for these types of services that give the guy from Pinboard the first right of refusal.

Mozilla should shut down.

I used to use Pocket religiously but fell off sometime after they pushed a redesign that made it more difficult to use. I&#x27;ve been using Inoreader to save articles now.

&gt; This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs...<p>I wish they had closed this announcement with more optimism.

Can someone suggest a good bookmarking app that can be used offline, as well as great typography and neat bookmarking of social media videos? Absolutely. At least embed and show it correctly.

Don’t have time to read this so I saved it in Pocket, I’ll probably get to it in a few months…<p>But in all seriousness I’ve got about 1000 articles I need to store and browse…somewhere when Pocket EoLs

Huh, that’s annoying. Been using pocket since around 2008, mainly for when I was abroad and roaming was costly. Looks like I’ll need to export my library of stuff.<p>Do I have any other similar options?

I&#x27;ve never understood Pocket. What&#x27;s wrong with Zotero?

I never used it as I knew it would eventually be canned.

Pocket&#x27;s existing featureset kind of overlaps with Pinboard. Maybe can Pinboard jump in and buy it from Mozilla? or build an alternative, perhaps.

Glad back in the days I chose Instapaper and not Readitlater&#x2F;Pocket. Still using it all the time. It costs money but is worth it.

Release starts by aggressively stating that<p>&gt; Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire<p>but they acquired Pocket in 2017 [1] and neither this app was growing (despite market for such apps was in very good shape few years ago) or it was delightful addition to browser experience<p>that said what annoys me about Mozilla, is that while they are position themselves poor and underfunded, they still act like they are backed by billionaire: they buy random apps for no reason or donating tons of money to not tech-related political organizations [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;news&#x2F;mozilla-acquires-pocket&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;news&#x2F;mozilla-acquires-po...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37015592">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37015592</a>

I was looking to replace it for quite some time now due to the Safari extension and also the website being very buggy with tags for too long. I didn’t have time to investigate alternatives, so this announcement came as a relief for me — it forced me to finally address the issue. Can’t say I’m surprised with this move, since it felt like abandonware for years now. Switched to Goodlinks and am very pleased with it for now.

I&#x27;d love for everyone to move to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;histre.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;histre.com&#x2F;</a> :-) (which I built)

Wait.. all that stuff I put into Pocket to look at later (and never revisited) may be gone forever?

You all thought Mozilla wouldn&#x27;t take a feature or service away.. Seriously where have you absolute fucks been the past 13 years?<p>-Tobin

I for one welcome the pocket interface no longer being installed by default. If I want (pocket|AI|news|recommendations|smart .*) in my browser, I&#x27;ll install it myself, and choose which one I want if there are several options available.<p>(This is not firefox specific but several browsers in my country have a deal with a news site I don&#x27;t care for, and on Edge mobile it&#x27;s the only option in a list of news sources to choose from besides turning the thing off. Think &quot;Fox News&quot; and you&#x27;re pretty close. Thanks but no thanks for reminding me as an immigrant that there&#x27;s too many of us.)

Any good alternatives which can import my pocket data?

Related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43856801">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43856801</a>

I moved off Pocket a couple years ago and moved to Readwise which is great (paid was a desired feature).<p>Anyone else have a favorite alternative?

I have discovered so many things thanks to the Pocket home page.

I still use Firefox but if Ladybird and Servo get adblock, video download, dark mode, I am jumping ship.

Lmao.<p>I&#x27;m sorry, but lmao.<p>Mozilla just cannot get out of their own way. All we want is a good open fucking browser not dominated by a corporation, and they can&#x27;t stop distracting themselves with things that don&#x27;t matter and then eventually shutting them down.<p>Mozilla needs to clean house of their leadership. Burn it all down. Start from scratch. It&#x27;s a joke right now...and I say that as a daily user of Firefox and someone that desperately wants them to succeed.<p>SOMEONE needs to be held accountable for failures like this...but all we will get is vague half apologies and corporate bullshit.

I use it to collect articles for my newsletter. Any alternatives? (Free, Browser extension, API)

A read-it-later app. Pocket, you had one job. Just one job. And for a while that was my killer app on mobile. But, as we see, the enshitification of the web continues.<p>&quot;What began as a read-it-later app evolved into something much bigger. After Mozilla acquired Pocket in 2017, we invested in building our content curation and recommendation capabilities so people everywhere can discover and access high quality web content. While Pocket is shutting down, we will continue to invest in this promise—through the New Tab experience, our email newsletter, and more.&quot;

How can we export the backups from premium version? Let me guess—we can only export the URLs.

So, I have a ton of links in pocket. Any suggestions on where to move them to?<p>This feels like yet another wake up call to only use open source software.

I guess good that i never used it and it was the first thing to disable from policies.json

I&#x27;ve been using FF since it was Mozilla Phoenix and I never once tried Pocket.

So much wasted potential, I was a top 1% reader for a couple years (mostly because I saved a lot of things probably); it was a convenient way to save articles and references in multiple devices but at the end I was frustated it was so cumberstone to keep links organized.<p>I stopped paying premium and migrated to a self-hosted Wallabag, which doesn&#x27;t have all the features I want but hey, in hindsight it was the right decision.<p>It would be cool if they open sourced the code, but one can only dream.

Just in time for them to shove more crypto and ai into a bloody web browser...

Good. Less dependence on external servers.<p>Now for better local bookmarks.

This is sad! I use it daily. Not sure what tool to replace this with.

Damn, what alternative can we look for ? (free, ideally open source)

One less thing to disable and hide on every new installation is a win.

Damn, I&#x27;m a user and sad about this. Whats alternative?

I am worried about Firefox Sync now, hope it survives

Self-hosted alternatives: Karakeep and Linkwarden

Wait what? They own Fakespot and they&#x27;re shutting it down?

They are also shuttering Fakespot which they acquired for an untold amount of money in 2023. Sounds like this little attempt at being &quot;AI guardrails&quot; is over.

To be honest I don&#x27;t think fakespot <i>can</i> work anymore, only the most egregious uses of AI can be detected these days... a couple sentences in a prompt can make it undetectable, especially considering they&#x27;re a third party with limited access to behavior heuristics of amazon users

Have been using FF since early 2000&#x27;s. Tried using Pocket but never really got the hang of it. Just never felt that it fixed a problem was having.<p>Still a FF fanboi, but fully behind shutting anything down that detracts from core FF.<p>Maybe old school, but would much prefer a focus on a browser focused on privecy.

Good riddance.

Another day, yet another service that I used shut down. It does make one want to get better at programming and build one&#x27;s own solutions since these multi-million and billion dollar companies are more concerned with shareholder value than their users.

Let a thousand flowers bloom

Seems like very short notice!

So disappointed. I had such high hopes when Mozilla acquired them, specifically for the integration with Firefox.<p>However, for years the design has been going the completely opposite direction of what I expected. The focus on more random content instead of my own articles is not what I wanted to see.<p>Pocket is probably one of my oldest online accounts. I&#x27;ll be sad to see it go but I guess it was already kind of dead for a few years now.<p>Amazing opportunity here for a really simple and focused read later app to take the reigns.

What is a good alternative?

&gt; Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire<p>What does this mean? Which billionaires back Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Edge?

~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla&#x27;s <i>wasted</i> effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla &quot;scam&quot; and now that it&#x27;s being removed, ~90% of the comments are &quot;sad&quot; and &quot;I used it a lot.&quot;

Pocket was always completely incompatible with Mozilla&#x2F;Firefox, and is at this point hopelessly outdated compared to all competitors. I really don&#x27;t understand what they were thinking.<p>Just running a hosted version of the excellent and open source (both server and client) Omnivore would be an amazing service to the open web and for data archiving&#x2F;portability, but I&#x27;m not holding my breath.

I recommend Readwise.

&gt;Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build<p>This doesn&#x27;t sound accurate

I was an avid Firefox user and supporter pre-1.0, even before it was named &quot;Firefox&quot;. I used Pocket a lot, its history is part of my. It&#x27;s time for Mozilla to die. That&#x27;ll suck, but it&#x27;s the only way forward. Way too many bad decisions in the last 10 years.<p>Fuck you, Mozilla.

&gt; 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.<p>The link to &quot;more info&quot; links to a page with this exact same vague text...

The writing was on the wall for Pocket when paywalls started to go up everywhere a few years ago. By that point, it could no longer scrape articles reliably.<p>Before that, it&#x27;s Discovery feature was great for surfacing long form writing on the Net, but even then there were issues because they&#x27;d pull a lot of content mill slop from Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com and there was no real way to block domains. Finally, when the good &quot;new media&quot; outlets started shutting down, Pocket&#x27;s content library went down with it.

One of many things they introduced that I would put repeated effort in to get out of my interface.

This is disappointing news. The Save to Pocket feature was one of the core features of Firefox that kept me using it. It feels like Mozilla is circling the drain lately.

Seems odd that it&#x27;s not being sold off. Was it truly that worthless?<p>It was also a great way to read paywalled articles for free.

These fucking guys. Open source it.

Terrible and predictable. Saw it coming years ago, and have used Wallabag ever since.

Yay!

Sad to see Pocket shutting down. For anyone seeking alternatives, I&#x27;ve been working on Linkwarden[1], an open-source bookmark manager that hit HN&#x27;s front page twice[2][3]. Plenty of other great alternatives out there too, such as Raindrop (not fully open-source), Karakeep, and Wallabag.<p>Also, there&#x27;s an official Linkwarden mobile app in development, aiming to support most (if not all) of Pocket&#x27;s key features :)<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linkwarden.app</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36942308">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36942308</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43856801">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43856801</a>

wow, i did not see this coming!<p>&#x2F;s<p>But i think (hope) this is a good thing. Mozilla has been too distracted and needs to get their head in the game.

Pocket users in shambles until they realize Ctrl + D exists

Are they going to refund money to Premium users who recently subscribed or renewed?<p>EDIT: As pointed out below, it&#x27;s covered in the link.<p>&quot;On July 8, 2025, Annual subscriptions will be cancelled and Annual users will receive a prorated refund automatically to the original payment method.&quot;