fuck, I'm using the Pocket plugin a lot :[
not for proper bookmarking, just to mark where I was in longer videos and webcomics, 1 click on/off, easy
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Is this cause of the money they lost from the google thing?
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!
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I try to support Mozilla (and more obscure open source projects we take for granted) through donations and subscriptions. But I never used Pocket or Fakespot.
I don’t think it should be a forced payment but I’d pay a few bucks a month for a true developer edition. The current one is essentially just the early beta for extension developers but something really developer focused with no bullshit and developer tools at the forefront. I don’t know if that’s something other people would pay for but I feel like it’s easier to shell out cash when I’m using it for work. A lot of people could probably expense it.
It likely wouldn’t replace the Google money but it’d be a start.
shame about pocket - wonder how much of a hole that really burned in their pocket - if much
I never used Pocket itself, but I do like having the grid of news articles on the new tab page, which I believe is powered by Pocket in some shape or form. Anyone know if that feature is going away too?
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Mozilla! Stop doing stupid stuff!
Welp, guess I better start up the calibre extension to send pocket articles as a file for ebook readers.
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.
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
Nobody is paying a subscription to use a browser they can get for free.
Enough internet users are familiar with the adage "if a product is free, you are the product", through personal experience
I'd be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they'd be able to make a stronger case for how they're protecting a free internet
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I hated it at first but then I started to leave pocket on and click links every now and then since I figured they got revenue out of it. I don't use it often but its a shame to see it go now that I kind of like it.
Good. I've been disabling this shit in about:config for one decade too many.
i literally JUST installed fakespot lol