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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 6 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.846s | source | bottom
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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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pouulet ◴[22 May 25 19:16 UTC] No.44065678[source]▶
The tags are exported : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-your-pocket-l...

What is contained in the export file?

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 contain tags or highlights.

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1. thrdbndndn ◴[22 May 25 20:01 UTC] No.44066233[source]▶
The page was "Last updated: 24 minutes ago". Someone at Mozilla saw this HN post and modified it (unsure if the export feature itself was changed or not).

You can tell it's a rushed edit as "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 contain tags or highlights." reads very unnatural.

Via Wayback Machine, it can be easily verified that the old versions of it, both the one edited very recently or the old ones in 2024, said "does not contain tags or highlights".

https://web.archive.org/web/20250415002842/https://support.m...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250522175656/https://support.m...

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2. tbr11 ◴[22 May 25 21:47 UTC] No.44067469[source]▶
My export from March had tags, my guess is this docs page just got missed when they updated the export months ago
3. throwaway314155 ◴[23 May 25 00:38 UTC] No.44068643[source]▶
Doesn't have to be a conspiracy. They saw a comment about a mistake in the article and made a clumsy edit in an attempt to remedy the mistake.
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4. thrdbndndn ◴[23 May 25 01:10 UTC] No.44068849[source]▶
I didn't mean that there is a conspiracy, just that OP wasn't lying and the doc was indeed saying it won't save tags.

(Now I read it, it does sound like so. My bad.)

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5. throwaway314155 ◴[23 May 25 01:22 UTC] No.44068914{3}[source]▶
No worries! Perhaps i shouldn't have assumed that so much investigation implied a conspiracy theory.
6. Vinnl ◴[26 May 25 09:35 UTC] No.44095626[source]▶
Yep sorry, I saw this post, brought it up internally because I remember hearing they updated the export functionality in preparation of the shutdown, and then they fixed it while I was out. So here's your notification that the docs were updated :)

Edit: and I see now other folks noticed and shared it as well.