Technology

pocket I never used. I found it ugly and just s violation of privacy as it moved a service that should be local only, to external webservers. I can see why it's finally had the plug pulled

Pocket goes hand in hand with procrastination.

Why don't they just open it up to let people run their own Pocket services? The usual "proprietary code" excuses make no sense for an organization like Mozilla and it's being end of lifed anyway. Just dump it on a repo somewhere and let people hack on it if they want to. Why isn't this part of the sunsetting plan?

I tried pocket a couple of times but couldn't get past the "we think you're on a phone so you're only getting three items on the screen at once". Well I'm not on a phone, I'm on a desktop with a 32" monitor and three T-Rex sized items on my screen is just terrible design.

The first paragraph is not true. Mozilla is backed by a billionaire or billionaires, for example Google and Microsoft where the majority of Mozilla revenues comes from them. Stop deceiving people!

I wanted to like pocket, but I never really understood the point of it when I was already using Reddit or Google News to curate what I liked to read about. Was it more privacy oriented?

Shutting down two things that had no business being built in their browser, to replace them with more stuff that have no business being built in their browser.

Mozilla really embraced the "corporation must corporate" motto.

part of me thinks "great, those things were annoying"

another part of me thinks it's a harbinger

I hope they don't remove Mozilla accounts too, I have all my bookmarks and sync between devices there. Zen browser that I use relies on this and I assume other browsers based off Firefox do too. Mozilla does not have a good managing team and they deserve to go down but there should be a transition period.

Mozilla should fire their non-technical staff, strongly make the case for how they're fighting for a free and open internet, and use a subscription model for Firefox to pay the bills