Mozilla Is Killing Its Pocket and Fakespot Services to Focus on Firefox

Pocket, Mozilla's popular website storage service, closes down. A shock for many users: now they have to clean up. Or delete their link collections.

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket—Download Your Saved Articles Before They Disappear

Pocket was pitched as a cure for a hurried, busy digital age in which we were stumbling across content much more quickly than we were able to read it. Using Pocket, you’d bookmark these stories, wherever they were across the web, so that you could come back to them later and read them. It was never meant to be a cash cow for whoever owned it. Ever since the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that most famously runs the Firefox browser, acquired …

Mozilla is killing Pocket and Fakespot

Pocket is the OG of read-it-later services to the extent that it was originally named Read It Later. However, you’d better read it quick: Firefox owner, Mozilla, which purchased the 18-year-old social bookmarking darling in 2017, has decided to shut it down on July 8th, 2025.

How to Export Your Saved Articles Before Pocket Shuts Down for Good

The beloved read-it-later app Pocket is shutting down, and Mozilla is giving current users until October 8 to download saved items from their lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.

Pocket lets you save articles you want to read for later. Mozilla explained the move by citing changing browsing habits.

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket - and I am supremely put out

With years of carefully saved reading material at risk, longtime users of the social bookmarking service are furious. Here's what happens now.