Mozilla is so out of Pocket for shutting down one of my favorite apps
Published on: 2025-06-25 23:10:00
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My Spidey sense started to tingle about two weeks ago, when my Save to Pocket context menu item stopped working. I have used Pocket, Mozilla's social bookmarking service, religiously for a decade -- it's a regular part of my morning reading.
The Chrome extension store had a notice saying it was no longer available, with no time frame for when it would be available again.
Also: I let Google's Jules AI agent into my code repo and it did four hours of work in an instant
Today, the other shoe fell. Pocket, a subsidiary of Mozilla, is shutting down. I just got the email sent to all Pocket users. Apparently, Mozilla is changing strategies, and Pocket (and all of our carefully curated databases of Pocket content) is not part of their plan.
[Expletive deleted].
The app will continue to work until July 8. Pocket Premium subscribers (that's me, to the tune of $989 for my wife and me since 2014) will not be auto-renewed, and any subscriptions paid for this year will receive a prorate
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