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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

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1222 points phantomathkg | 10 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.651s | source | bottom
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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. modzu ◴[22 May 25 22:16 UTC] No.44067735[source]▶
mozilla has been broken for a long time. spiritually and intellectually, brave is the successor
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2. agiacalone ◴[22 May 25 22:27 UTC] No.44067840[source]▶
Sorry, but I'm not going to trust any browser based on Chrome. Even Brave.

It's not long until Brave won't be able to support Manifest V2 as Google has every interest to kill it completely.

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3. rnd0 ◴[23 May 25 04:00 UTC] No.44069753[source]▶
From what I understand, Brave is a shit-show in its' own right.
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4. thesuitonym ◴[23 May 25 15:06 UTC] No.44073542[source]▶
Brave is adware, in what way is it the spiritual successor to Firefox?
5. andrepd ◴[23 May 25 17:22 UTC] No.44074686[source]▶
An ad-ware reskin of chromium is the successor of Firefox?
6. bigstrat2003 ◴[23 May 25 17:31 UTC] No.44074753[source]▶
I use Brave and it's totally fine. People love to complain about it on HN but I have never had any bad experiences.
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7. bigstrat2003 ◴[23 May 25 17:32 UTC] No.44074761[source]▶
> It's not long until Brave won't be able to support Manifest V2

That's true but not that big of a deal in their case. The built-in ad blocker works quite well and removes the need to run uBlock Origin.

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8. agiacalone ◴[23 May 25 19:56 UTC] No.44076068{3}[source]▶
Brave's adblocker won't do anything against Google's trackers if Google builds it in to the engine.

Again, I advise against trusting anything Chromium-based.

Also, you apparently haven't heard of uBlock Origin's Medium Mode. Brave can't even touch that. There's more than just advertising to worry about on the web.

9. vrighter ◴[25 May 25 07:42 UTC] No.44086246[source]▶
the one with the cryptocurrency bullshit?
10. major505 ◴[26 May 25 14:30 UTC] No.44097777{3}[source]▶
I use too, but is not without its problem. It does implement a lot of adds in things like the new tab page, and it did some controversial stuff (they use to replace page ads with their own, essencially stealing the page monetization, dont know if they still do).

For a while Brave is going to be my stop gap browser. Hopping that Ladybird can soon replace it.

For all its flaws, Brave still annoys me less than Mozilla assh*les.

I also tried Zen Browser... lovely, but is pretty much Mozilla with a bunch of addons. The problem is, is not clear how much of the invasive Mozilla telemetry they left on their code base. Unfourtunally, any browser that orginates from mozilla bullshit, for now, I kind consider fruit of a posionous tree.