Mozilla Is Killing Its Pocket and Fakespot Services to Focus on Firefox
- Mozilla announced it will shut down its Pocket and Fakespot services in mid-2025 to focus on Firefox development.
- The company cited a need to be intentional about where it invests time and resources amid evolving web browsing and content habits.
- Pocket, acquired in 2017 after starting as Read It Later in 2007, will stop new downloads today and cease service on July 8, 2025.
- Mozilla stated that annual Pocket subscribers will be refunded on July 8 and users can export data until October 8, when all data and APIs will be deleted.
- Fakespot’s browser extensions and apps will end by July 1, with its Firefox Review Checker feature terminating June 10, reflecting Mozilla’s shift to projects matching current browsing needs.
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Pocket, Mozilla's popular website storage service, closes down. A shock for many users: now they have to clean up. Or delete their link collections.
Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket—Download Your Saved Articles Before They Disappear
Pocket was pitched as a cure for a hurried, busy digital age in which we were stumbling across content much more quickly than we were able to read it. Using Pocket, you’d bookmark these stories, wherever they were across the web, so that you could come back to them later and read them. It was never meant to be a cash cow for whoever owned it. Ever since the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that most famously runs the Firefox browser, acquired …
This is an article reading service and a browser extension that analyzes product reviews and that the company has chosen to discontinue.
Mozilla is killing Pocket and Fakespot
Pocket is the OG of read-it-later services to the extent that it was originally named Read It Later. However, you’d better read it quick: Firefox owner, Mozilla, which purchased the 18-year-old social bookmarking darling in 2017, has decided to shut it down on July 8th, 2025.
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