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
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Bummer. I can see pocket going, I tried to use it but it’s basically a place to put stuff that you plant to but never actually get around to reading, a bookmark does the same thing. Fakespot I’m not sure about. I’ve used it, but there’s no way to verify how right it is.
Mozilla shouldn't have bought FakeSpot
Finally! I couldn't wait for Pocket to shut down. One useless icon less in my Firefox.
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They're likely moving to focus on Thundermail.com, VPN, calendar, private cloud storage, etc.. Like Proton Mail does.
was fakespot ever available outside the us?
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.
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Pocket is basically a chumbox, but it's a pretty good chumbox.
Fakespot was what finally convinced my wife to leave chrome. Fuck these fuckers.
Pocket goes hand in hand with procrastination.