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Pocket shutting down

Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help

Pocket will be shutting down on July 8, 2025. This is very disappointing as I love the compatibility with my Kobo.

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Wallabag is a fine alternative to pocket.
- I am currently trying Wallabag and like it so far. Being able to self-host it is definitely a plus. I also like how clean and simple it is compared to how bloated Pocket has become, but it does not have the official integration with Kobo. It looks like there is a way to use Wallabag by installing KOReader. I will look more into that if I decide to stick with Wallabag long-term.
  
  . It looks like there is a way to use Wallabag by installing KOReader.
  KOReader is a big upgrade over KOBO, imo. The 1-click install is here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314220

Imagine that someone collected and kept the bookmarks there, and now they will disappear. Another reason to remember that you do not need to store anything important remotely.

i just imported all my pocket bookmarks into firefox bookmarks, and it kinda works even better

Finally! Good news. One less thing to remove every time I install Firefox.
- This. Very much this. It's the first thing I do in Firefox.

Good. Was frustrating to have Firefox finely tuned w/ extensions and whatnot to eliminate invasive ads, but their front page "news aggregator" ignored all of those rules and served up only ad-infested trash
- The aggregator is being kept. It’s just the bookmarking/reading service that’s shutting down.

It's always interesting when the first I hear of something is when it dies.
- You should be happy its the first you hear about it. It wasnt popular when it came and it never became popular and still it took a decade to fucking die.
  It got bundled with Firefox in June 2015 and now exactly 10 years later, its finally gone.

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