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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 3 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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segphault ◴[22 May 25 17:45 UTC] No.44064599[source]▶
I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction.

I'd probably be applauding the decision to shut this down if I thought they were doing it to free up resources to increase their focus on the browser, but Mozilla seems to be institutionally committed to chasing its own demise, so I'm sure they will instead focus on AI integration and other stuff that nobody asked for.

Meanwhile, Firefox is still missing proper support for a bunch of modern web features like view transitions and CSS anchor points that are available in every other browser.

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major505 ◴[22 May 25 19:25 UTC] No.44065781[source]▶
Mozilla is more occupied this days paying multi milionary bonus to its executives and begging users for money they waste on useless projects.

Mozilla must die, so Firefox can live.

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1. 28304283409234 ◴[22 May 25 20:33 UTC] No.44066612[source]▶
I switched to Vivaldi after 23 years of Mozilla. Could not be happier.
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2. netsharc ◴[22 May 25 22:59 UTC] No.44068074[source]▶
Another Vivaldi user here, who "grew up" with the old pre-Chinese Opera...

Sadly Vivaldi is also dependent on Chromium, and will also have to lose Manifest v2 support when that time comes.

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3. zamadatix ◴[24 May 25 02:20 UTC] No.44078269[source]▶
That a browser either maintain your own entire browser engine or you can't support additional types of extensions is a false dichotomy. Vivaldi chooses nto to support it just as much as the choose to integrate VPN, an email client, RSS, Atom, a completely custom UI, and probably other things I'm forgetting that Chromium doesn't ship for them.

What is changing is what Chromium will maintain, what Vivaldi decides to continue supporting is their own choice. My guess is it will be more random crap as well, but not because Chromium is/isn't supporting those things.