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Comment by JeremyNT | Hacker News Reader

Yeah this is really lame. I used it because I like Mozilla and thought Pocket's future would be relatively safe in their hands.

I'm sure a lot of HN readers view any of Mozilla's operations outside of Firefox as a distraction, but I think it's a shame to lose Pocket. I really like several Mozilla services (Relay, VPN, and up to now Pocket) and this shutdown along with such a half-assed export option is a real disappointment.

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I'm with you. I think it's great that Mozilla is trying/tried to extend their value beyond just the browser.

I found pocket immensely useful. Having the ability to have my kobo e-reader sync pocket articles to read off-line was such a useful feature.

I don't understand the Mozilla hate on this board. I think it's wildly overblown.

You’re misunderstanding; much of the so called hate is rather intense disappointment many tech people have with Mozilla due to mismanagement and constant fumbles. Intense disappointment about a future we’ll never get to experience where Mozilla is well run and produces and iterates effectively on big open source projects, bolsters browser ecosystem competition and fends off browser monopoly (requires market share which they’ve failed at), etc. Don’t conflate that with hate, many of us are still their biggest proponents despite often engaging in criticism. If you stop seeing a lot of Mozilla “hate” that would probably be worse and then you’d really know that nobody cares about them at all and they’re actually a dead organization at that point.

> I like Mozilla and thought Pocket's future would be relatively safe in their hands.

Never trust a company like this. You'll always get burned. If it's not FOSS, its not reliable and will likely burn you

Mozilla's track record of shutting down projects is almost as bad as Google's. I wouldn't count on any of their non-Firefox projects lasting very long.

> I'm sure a lot of HN readers view any of Mozilla's operations outside of Firefox as a distraction

For most people, Mozilla is just the company developing Firefox and Firefox is the Mozilla product. Mozilla's pivot into the web's hero is coming at the price of Firefox and people are not happy. Their current situation where they depend financially on Google just doesn't feel right. And I understand that Google has been asked to stop financing Mozilla. Tough times will be coming for them

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