Ian Carlos Campbell is a Contributing Reporter at Engadget, where he covers the big companies making screens for your pockets, and the weird ways they intersect with entertainment industry. Prior to Engadget, Ian was an Associate Editor at Inverse focused on AR, VR and mobile technology.
it's phasing out Pocket and Fakespot, its browser extension for vetting product reviews, in an attempt"to be intentional about where we invest our time and resources" as the company continues to support Firefox.
Starting today, May 22, Pocket is no longer available to download and you can't sign up for a Pocket Premium subscription. Mozilla says existing annual and monthly subscriptions will be cancelled automatically, and annual subscribers will be fully refunded on July 8. You'll have until October 8 to export your Pocket data before Mozilla deletes it, and the Pocket API, which lets apps and devices access the articles you've saved, will be shut down on the same day. The Fakespot website, browser extension and apps will no longer be available starting on July 1, 2025 and you'll lose access to Review Checker in Firefox even earlier on June 10. Mozillain 2023"to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech," but the company says that"while the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain."in 2017, but Pocket existed for a decade before that, first launching in 2007 as a browser extension called Read It Later before it was Like Instapaper, Pocket promised to take an article URL and convert the page into a highly-readable, ad-free document that you could access while you were away from your browser. Some modern browsers havethat can do the same thing on-demand, but Pocket made it possible to archive it all for later, even if the page was taken down., which combines read-it-later features and the ability to review eBook highlights in the same app. For more instructions on how to rescue your Pocket data before its deleted, Mozilla has
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