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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 1 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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_def ◴[22 May 25 17:27 UTC] No.44064357[source]▶
> 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.

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've done it sooner... and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

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chimeracoder ◴[22 May 25 17:29 UTC] No.44064387[source]▶
> and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again.

Who will you trust? Google? Apple? Microsoft? It's not like any of the other behemoths have a better track record when it comes to long-term maintenance and availability of hosted consumer products. If anything, Mozilla actually has the best track record out of them all when it comes to long-term offerings.

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walterbell ◴[22 May 25 17:31 UTC] No.44064419[source]▶
> Who will you trust?

Your-self-hosted?

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reaperducer ◴[22 May 25 17:55 UTC] No.44064736[source]▶
Your-self-hosted?

Only if you're among the .0001% of people who can code it yourself. Otherwise, nothing is different; you're always relying on someone else for their software, feature, security, and compatibility updates.

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1. bee_rider ◴[22 May 25 19:23 UTC] No.44065759[source]▶
Code? For self-hosting? I hope not. Most programmers shouldn’t be programming internet-facing stuff. (FWIW I include myself in “most programmers”).

Get it from your repository. In that case you are trusting somebody like Debian or Redhat. They’ve earned an awful lot of trust.