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

submitted 5 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 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] Character_Locked@lemm.ee 18 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Weird gimmick that I've literally never used or even ever considered using. There's already this obscure thing that you can save articles and pages in for later called "bookmarks".

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago

Bookmarks are problematic.

The page can go away, or be changed.

[–] Wrdlbrmpfd@feddit.org 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Bookmarks don't do the job, because you can't read the article anymore

when it was removed or the URL changed
when you cancel the subsription of the newspaper

[–] Character_Locked@lemm.ee 8 points 4 hours ago

That's a fair point. So I guess the purpose that it actually serves is bookmarking and saving the page at the same time. I can definitely see the use in that actually.

[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 12 points 5 hours ago

I don't use pocket. It just seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

Before I started using Zen, the first thing I'd do every time I installed Firefox is disable Pocket.