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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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sdk16420 ◴[22 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.44064978[source]▶
Not to mention they charged $45 a year for a service that included backups in their cloud should your save become a dead link. Imagine paying that amount for several years and when you need it they pull the rug.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250321050043/https://getpocket...

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ternaryoperator ◴[22 May 25 21:41 UTC] No.44067417[source]▶
On that archived page: "A forever home for your collection"

Forever just doesn't mean what it used to.

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rollcat ◴[23 May 25 11:40 UTC] No.44071915[source]▶
SaaS rots faster than the bits on your spinning rust. The incentive structure tends to drift away from a corp's long-term strategy. If you don't own it, you don't own it.

Even the bits you own rot faster than brick and mortar. It's just the nature of the universe - cosmic rays, magnetosphere, etc. Doesn't help that the integrated circuits are smaller, and hence much more brittle with each generation.

And do you even own the hardware you purchased? Even before the ongoing craze to turn fridges into subscriptions into landfill. Try some "retro" devices from 15, 20, 30y ago - many builtin websites/apps/services just 404, long before companies planned for obsolescence.

Only diamonds are forever.

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1. ternaryoperator ◴[23 May 25 22:01 UTC] No.44077018{3}[source]▶
Agreed, except none of those things (Saas, hardware, etc.) explicitly promises you a forever timeframe. That's really what I'm poking at--the promise, rather than the reality, which you quite accurately describe.