⚠️ Important PSA about #Pocket ‼️

If you used Pocket to save interesting articles you found online, you may be aware that #Mozilla decided to shut down the app and discontinue support.

I vaguely remembered that date was July and had a mini-heart attack when I saw it was actually July 8.

Good news though: if you, like me, have hundreds of articles saved to Pocket, you have until October 8 to request an export of your data (I just did): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

Next up: moving to @wallabag 🤗

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981

Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.

(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981

Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.

(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).

Mozilla is integrating Google Lens in Firefox

｢ With this integration, we’re offering a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) “search what you see” ｣

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-in-firefox-desktop-only-visual-search/m-p/106216#M41026

#privacy #mozilla #firefox

Mozilla c'est le LFI de la tech toujours décevant mais tu sais que les autres sont pires

#Mozilla
#ia
#LFI

via > https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/115281553779363686
Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop

https://www.webpronews.com/mozilla-integrates-google-lens-for-visual-search-in-firefox-desktop/

Mozilla is introducing Google Lens-powered visual search to Firefox desktop, enabling users to right-click images for contextual searches in an opt-in feature that prioritizes privacy. This partnership aims to boost engagement amid AI-driven browser innovations [...]

Mozilla is integrating Google Lens in Firefox

｢ With this integration, we’re offering a frictionless, fast, and a curiosity-sparking way to (as Google puts it) “search what you see” ｣

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/new-in-firefox-desktop-only-visual-search/m-p/106216#M41026

#privacy #mozilla #firefox

With Mozilla's #Pocket shutting down (articles are already unavailable, exports can be retrieved through 8 October 2025, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250927204616/https://getpocket.com/home), I've exported the list of URLs I'd logged with the service.

One of my longstanding gripes was that there was no way for me to get a total of the articles I'd saved.

(There ... were other gripes.)

I now know: 30,735.

In an ideal world, this would have been a useful library of references. I'd tagged many of these (including, eventually, adopting a convention of tagging by archive date which Pocket surely must've known somewhere in its data schema, but petulantly hid from its users), through a loose but somewhat controlled vocabulary influenced in part by both my general interests and some familiarity with existing library ontologies, classifications, and subject headings.

I'm kicking around what to do with this archive. One question of course is how many of the links have since rotted (I suspect a high percentage). I've got a few leads on readability-rendering (including a bash script invoking JS ... somehow ... I've got to look at). Tracking down archived copies, and spinning up a media server, would also be handy.

#Mozilla #GetPocket #Shutdown #Libraries #KFC #KnowledgeManagement #WhyIsContentManagementSoShiteStill

Recentemente eu havia alcançado um certo nível de paz na utilização da internet pelo celular com o fennec: os plugins estavam perfeitos: noscript, badger, ublock... Quando precisava, ligava temporariamente alguns js no noscript pra ver algum detalhe da página... Não era o paraíso, mas tava bom.
Até a última atualização... Agora, quando a página abre (geralmente não abre), demora uma vida. Eu já re instalei o navegador e continua igual. Logo suponho que não é problema do download. 😞
Não conheço nenhuma alternativa com essa flexibilidade e confiabilidade compatível com meu aparelho atual
#Fennec #fdroid #mozilla #firefox

I had a crash that took down Firefox, so when I restarted it it was the newest version (an update I'd installed, but hadn't restarted after).

I just went looking through the settings pages, which is a habit I've unfortunately had to get into because #Firefox and #Mozilla keep adding new anti-user fuckery in their continuing quest to drive users away from the only product they make that anyone gives two shits about.

And lo and behold, this is the new fuckery I found. Enabled by default. And it reinforces the need to go check for this bullshit every version update.

Firefox, if you had asked me how to cut my already diminishing trust in you to do the right thing by your users to near zero, I wouldn't have even dreamed this batshittery up. It's so much worse than I would have suggested. I have all the crap turned off - silently adding new crap and silently defaulting it to on is 1995-era Microsoft-screwing-the-users.

You feel you need to add this shit? Fine. But show me a dialog asking me whether I want it on or not when that version first starts. Don't turn it on behind my back and HOPE I DON'T NOTICE.

#fuckery#TwoShits #batshittery #abuse #DarkPattern #user#BehindYourBack#Enabled#EnabledByDefault #permission#AskPermission #sponsored #ads #privacy#version #update #bullshit

Every user: "We want #Firefox to be a real agent for the user, that doesn't give us AI slop and won't sell out our privacy."

#Mozilla: "On Firefox for iOS you can now get an "AI" to summarize a page by shaking your phone"

🤦

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/

Can we just shake it off?

Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

https://www.engadget.com/ai/firefox-provides-ai-page-summaries-if-you-shake-your-iphone-145837557.html?src=rss

#Firefox#AI#Mozilla#iOS#iPhone#Apple#Tech

Every user: "We want #Firefox to be a real agent for the user, that doesn't give us AI slop and won't sell out our privacy."

#Mozilla: "On Firefox for iOS you can now get an "AI" to summarize a page by shaking your phone"

🤦

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/