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Pocket for Firefox doesn't seem to make sense for me. (feddit.org)

submitted 8 hours ago by Wrdlbrmpfd@feddit.org to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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Many articles nowadays are behind a paywall. So when I want to add an article from a paid newspaper to Pocket, I figured out that that portal just tries to grab the article itself instead of taking it from Firefox directly. Which means that you just see the part of the article you see when you aren't logged in.

Does that make any sense? Not really.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Pocket used to grab the whole article. It was great for long reads that you didn’t have time for until later. You could read the article from any of your devices (computer/phone/tablet). There was even a “report problem” button for articles that were cut off. And you could set it to download the articles to read offline when you were on a plane or something. If it doesn’t do that anymore than I guess it’s been enshittified by the Firefox buyout.

Instapaper does something similar and still seems to work.