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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: 0.472s | source
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sureste ◴[22 May 25 17:31 UTC] No.44064416[source]▶
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?
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godelski ◴[22 May 25 18:16 UTC] No.44064995[source]▶
This is what confused me coming into this thread too! I was wondering what it'd be like consider how widely unpopular pocket is around here. Enough that anytime Firefox is brought up people point to pocket. No one defending it at those times so at just hear negatives. I'm sure there are plenty of different users but it's interesting to see what opinions dominate a thread at a given time.

I think people just like complaining about Firefox and Mozilla. Or maybe it's just that HN likes to complain in general

Either way, good news for Google I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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1. NegativeK ◴[22 May 25 18:32 UTC] No.44065177[source]▶
There are some from the Pocket disliking group that have made comments here. I bet most don't care that much.

The vast majority of people using Firefox don't care at all.

And then the people are significantly affected, the Pocket users, are going to be the loudest in this thread.

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2. godelski ◴[22 May 25 20:16 UTC] No.44066389[source]▶
I recognize these are different groups and HN isn't a homogeneous entity.

My explicit point was about perception bias.

My point was about how this bias is often undermining ourselves. In this case, helping Google chrome.

It just seems worth pointing out. That the comment sections in Internet forums seem to preference comments that compilation.