Warning: puns

… Yes, in the sense that it's not open source and therefore you can't make a pull request on it.

Seriously, the server part of Pocket is closed-source, and that's why I'm suspicious of it. I don't trust that it's operating in my interests.

Teach a man to fish and he'll thank you. Hang around all the time offering him some fish you caught that's totally free to you but don't worry it's really good fish and you'll love it why don't you try it, and he'll start to think you're a bit fishy.

And I don't understand why Mozilla would buy a closed-source service in order to compete with the open-source Wallabag.

It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become.

It's not quite as bad as Microsoft "We really think you should try to use edge so we'll set it as default for you with every major update! And bug you with popups everywhere we can!" But not as clear as the desktop version either.

In fact the mobile one has so many settings and add-ons blocked that sometimes it feels as if it's made by a different company. It completely lacks the things that make Firefox great :(

I still use it because of sync and uBlock origin which at least works now.. But it's pretty mediocre imo. And most of this is intentional design.