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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Never cared for pocket and always disabled it as spyware. Fake spot will be missed though.

This is an ill omen however. They’re cutting back dramatically in anticipation of their Google funding being lost forever and perhaps as some suggest in anticipation of enshitifying. These were both sold originally as additional revenue streams for Mozilla.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I used to use it before it got acquired by Firefox to store my read it later list.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

they're focusing on AI instead, it seems