The funnier part to me about Pocket is Mozilla could have just re-implemented it as their own service.

I'm still sour about them having a password vault, and then not maintaining it for iOS any longer (and maybe android?) when they were my default password manager for over a decade. I have opted to use BitWarden, but what I preferred about using Firefox's password manager was that it was built-in.

Honestly if Mozilla just focused on keeping Firefox up to date that could be a winning move. Whenever MV2 is phased out of Chrome, people will start seeing more ads and noticing their adblockers don't work so well anymore and start browser shopping. They don't need pocket, they don't need Mr. Robot, they don't need the metaverse or crypto. They just need to suck the least.

I have used firefox for I guess 15 years now and only have a dim awareness of what pocket is. I definitely see the hostility towards it but I don't really understand the depth of it.

If you don't like a feature you could just ignore it, right?