Mozilla is shutting down its bookmarking service Pocket, leaving many paying users in distress. The author, who has invested nearly $1,000, compares Pocket's shutdown to losing valuable data from a storage facility, where only filenames are returned with no actual content. This lack of access to stored articles poses a significant problem, particularly for users relying on Pocket to preserve documents against the risks of web changes. Many users are dissatisfied with Mozilla's approach, and efforts are underway to create alternative solutions using AI and open-source software.
Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, and I am not amused. I'm also not a freeloader demanding support for a free account. Over the years, my wife and I have paid almost $1,000 to Mozilla's bookmarking service for secure article storage.
OK, let's give a digital analogy. You've been paying a Dropbox-like company to store your data online. For whatever reason, the Dropbox-like company decides to shut down. They give you a few months to request your data. You make that request, wait a day or so, and then get back a list of the filenames stored. Just the filenames. The data itself is gone.
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