Mozilla is shutting down read-it-later app Pocket

Mozilla announced on Thursday that it’s shutting down Pocket, a read-it-later app it acquired in 2017, on July 8. The corporate can be shutting down Fakespot, its browser extension that helps customers establish unreliable evaluations.

“Pocket has helped tens of millions save articles and uncover tales price studying,” Mozilla stated in a weblog put up. “However the way in which individuals use the online has developed, so we’re channeling our sources into initiatives that higher match their searching habits and on-line wants.”

Customers will be capable of proceed utilizing the app and browser extensions for Pocket till July 8. After that date, Pocket will transfer into export-only mode. Customers have till October 8 to export saved articles, together with objects of their record, archive, favorites, notes, and highlights.

Whereas Mozilla didn’t present a selected cause for shutting down the service, the corporate says it should proceed to put money into serving to individuals uncover and “entry top quality internet content material.” Mozilla says it should do that by way of its New Tab expertise, e mail e-newsletter, and extra. The New Tab expertise options shortcuts to your most visited websites, your lately visited pages, and your bookmarks.

As for Fakespot, Mozilla says it’s shutting down the service as a result of “whereas the thought resonated, it didn’t match a mannequin we might maintain.”

Though it’s unclear what number of customers Pocket had, the service was in a position to domesticate a loyal userbase over time. Customers have taken to social media to voice their displeasure with the information.

“This shift permits us to form the subsequent period of the web — with instruments like vertical tabs, good search and extra AI-powered options on the way in which,” Mozilla says. “We’ll proceed to construct a browser that works tougher for you: extra private, extra highly effective and nonetheless proudly unbiased.”