Also shutting down Fakespot source
Seriously, I am glad they are focusing on the browser. But I dislike the BS corporate language pn those PR, they don’t explain the reason of shutting this down at all.
This is disappointing as I love the integration with Kobo.
Pocket seems like it used to be an ad tech company that sells people’s data, so I feel this kind of begs the question of why Mozilla bought them in the first place.
As for alternatives, Wallabag looks promising! It’s self hostable and maintained, but their web client is coded in PHP which the GOS forum said could be insecure?
Yeah, they had bills to pay. I think ads were in the free service, maybe in the mobile app. I had been paying for a number of years and saw no ads.
They’d have a daily email of articles which maybe had an ad or a ad-story in it. This is going to continue in some form as mentioned in their FAQ.
From a 404media story at Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down about Pocket’s demise, the author said the click-through rates of the curated homepage clicks were amazingly high.
Damn, there goes my favorite and most secretive way to bypass paywalls. I also admit I was paying for Pocket just to support the Firefox browser because there is almost no other way to.