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Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now
They've pulled their browser extensions and integrations except for Firefox. The definition of blatant enshitification and anti-competitive. Moz needs to be held accountable by the EU for this kind of crap.
Dead links:
- https://getpocket.com/apps/link/pocket-chrome?s=ADD_PAGE&ep=1
- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket/niloccemoadcdkdjlinkgdfekeahmflj
I've recently switched from Instapaper to a self-hosted instance of Shiori for read-it-later-type functionality. It's small, fast, and open-source.
There's also hoarder for when I have no idea if I ever need to remember something, but I might, so I want it stored somewhere.
Both of these are excellent tools.
I just wished Obsidian, Session (a Signal fork without metadata), and/or MEGA had a multiplatform bookmarks paid zero-knowledge sync service with the option of FOSS self-hosting.
Btw, also, the official bookmarklet also doesn't work. "Please login." while logged-in.
Here's a working bookmarklet: https://xaviesteve.com/6344/add-to-pocket-bookmarklet-altern...
Still in the Safari extensions it looks like but then hasn't been updated in 5 years...
I just hope they don't shut off APIs intentionally breaking stuff that works.
Well, they've recently (afaict last September) nerfed the client API - my local updater used to fetch 5000 URLs at a time from the API (worked for ~9 years) but now it's 30 returned max per request with tighter rate limits and it'll also randomly just not bother to return any results or a 500 or a 404 regardless of rate limits.
I love how the only thing seen as able to exert justice is the EU.
The US isn't going to lift a finger unless it's associated with China.
Remember when Mozilla swore up and down that they'd make Pocket a separate extension only, and not have it tightly integrated? Good times.
and they said they were open sourcing it...
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Any worthy alternatives that people recommend?
This is 4chan worthy fan-fiction
I don't understand. What do you mean?
While we're talking about Firefox, does anybody feel like it's gotten dog-slow recently compared to Chrome? Testing with the following gist it takes FF 2.7 seconds on my machine for the page to fully load, and only ~400 ms in Chrome.
https://gist.github.com/NatElkins/6f2538e58778fdf2868419d824...
I wouldn't say dog slow. Because it implies some kind of comparison to a breathing entity.
I would say, it kills my iOS, my MacBook and my Linux. It's shit.
I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.
A couple of years ago I think they had some performance problems with a lot of tabs. Seems like they're back to having the same problems they used to have. I've worked at places that kept re-introducing the same software bugs month after month. Certain way to lose your customers.
> I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.
See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.
Yep, both major non-Safari Mobile browser are still using WebKit, which means, it's probably better to use Safari unless there are compelling features that break out of the walled garden.
Apple rescinded the "WebKit for every browser" requirement, but Chrome iOS with the Blink rendering engine will supposedly arrive this year (2025) and yet I don't think a similar FF Quantum for iOS will happen anytime soon.
I happened to have FF installed on an iPhone 13 Pro because it synced over from an iCloud backup but I never bothered to run it since I tried running on an iPhone 6S once-upon-a-time.