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1222 points phantomathkg | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
1. uxcolumbo ◴[] No.44064517[source]
They should at least allow to download their copy of the saved articles, PDF or HTML or whatever format they save it in.

This is such a betrayal. Some old links might not exist anymore, so it's useless to only get the links.

EDIT: Betrayal, because the main reason I paid for Pocket was the archiving of articles and now I can't actually export the archived copies.

Their decision of not enabling export of the archived copies now makes it very unlikely that I'll ever pay for any of their paid services in the future.

A shame really because I like supporting Firefox as a browser.

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2. gxqoz ◴[] No.44064905[source]
I think doing this would expose how poorly they've actually saved their copies of articles. Pocket has always had a very funny definition of "permanent copy" which doesn't mean what you think it does! I'm a little saddened by their demise but the service has been so terrible for so long that I've long since moved to the much superior Readwise.
3. cuillevel3 ◴[] No.44068424[source]
I totally agree.

  A forever home for your collection. Pocket becomes your permanent library—so even if a page you've saved is taken down, you'll still have a copy of it in Pocket
That's what I paid for. I trusted in Mozilla being open and allowing me to take my data with me. This is worse than Google?