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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 2 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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asadotzler ◴[22 May 25 17:39 UTC] No.44064537[source]▶
~90% of HN commenters who mentioned Pocket in the last decade or so have been complaining about Mozilla's wasted effort on Pocket and how no one asked for it and how it was just another Mozilla "scam" and now that it's being removed, ~90% of the comments are "sad" and "I used it a lot."
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1. jonas21 ◴[22 May 25 17:46 UTC] No.44064611[source]▶
This is a perfectly reasonable distribution once you consider that only a small fraction of people who really care about something are motivated enough to comment about it.

There's a small group who complain loudly about Pocket, a small group who are really sad to see it go, and probably a much larger group that either doesn't know what Pocket is or doesn't care enough to write a comment.

It's important to keep this in mind when reading online discussions in general.

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2. JohnFen ◴[22 May 25 18:03 UTC] No.44064831[source]▶
This.

I'm in the "didn't really care either way" camp. Pocket was not something interesting or useful to me, but I could remove it from the UI so its existence also wasn't annoying to me.