Firefox Maker Mozilla Discontinues Pocket and Fakespot to Focus on Browser

Mozilla today said that it is shutting down Pocket, the read-it-later work that allows users to prevention articles, videos, and webpages to presumption later. The institution besides plans to extremity enactment connected Fakespot, a browser hold and website that analyzes the authenticity of online merchandise reviews.


Pocket is simply a well-known work that streamlines articles, offering a distraction-free speechmaking experience. It includes offline access, text-to-speech options, and tagging capabilities. Pocket has been integrated successful Firefox since 2015, and Mozilla bought the work successful 2017.

Fakespot is an online reappraisal checking website that Mozilla bought 2 years agone and integrated into Firefox, but Mozilla said Fakespot "didn't acceptable a exemplary [it] could sustain."

Pocket is nary longer disposable for download arsenic of today, and determination is nary longer an enactment to acquisition a Pocket Premium subscription. The Pocket shutdown volition hap connected July 8, 2025, and users volition person until October 8, 2025 to export Pocket information earlier they are permanently deleted.

Pocket Premium monthly and yearly subscriptions volition beryllium canceled automatically, and yearly subscribers volition person refunds aft July 8. Access to the Pocket API volition extremity connected October 8, and information volition request to beryllium exported earlier then.

Mozilla is shutting down the Fakespot extensions, mobile apps, and websites connected July 1, 2025 and the Fakespot Review Checker successful Firefox volition unopen down connected June 10, 2025.

According to Mozilla, portion Pocket is fashionable and has implicit 10 cardinal users, "the mode radical prevention and devour contented connected the web has evolved." As a result, the institution plans to absorption clip and resources connected Firefox, and make projects that amended lucifer existent browsing habits.

Pocket users who are looking for an alternate person a fig of options to consider, including Instapaper, Wallabag, and Raindrop.io.
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