Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Browser Integrations

Posted by kobayashi on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:47AM
from the self-post dept.

The integrations beloved by power-users have been removed from the Chrome and Safari Pocket extensions, though Pocket has stated that the integrations will be returned given sufficient public request.

Pocket support can be reached at https://help.getpocket.com/contact or via Twitter at @PocketSupport

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Re:Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Brows... by Piskvorrr on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @11:53AM (#16421751)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - if the powers-that-be at Pocket wish to shoot themselves in the collective foot, that's their prerogative; I'm not about to grovel in their general direction. This has, historically, been the impulse to abandon ship and look for an alternative, signalling more walled garden and/or service shutdown ahead.

This looks workable, and explicitly open for self-hosting: https://wallabag.org/en

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Re:Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Brows... by kobayashi on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:00PM (#16421805)

In my previous experience with Wallabag (approx 2 years ago) I found their text-to-speech functionality to be significantly worse than Pocket, which is a shame.

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Re:Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Brows... by kup0 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:30PM (#16422090)

Why artificially restrict a feature and then make users beg to get it back? That's quite user-hostile.

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Re:Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Brows... by davidtpate on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:49PM (#16426159)

I am disappoint.

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