Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the useful bookmarking software used to avoid wasting articles and webpages for later. The group introduced that Pocket will cease engaged on July eighth, 2025, as Mozilla begins concentrating its “sources into initiatives that higher match their shopping habits and on-line wants.”
Following the shutdown, you’ll solely find a way to export saves till October eighth, 2025, which is when Mozilla will completely delete consumer information. Mozilla says it would begin routinely canceling subscriptions as effectively, and can subject prorated refunds to customers subscribed to its annual plan on July eighth.
It has additionally taken down the Pocket net extension and app as of Could twenty second, 2025, however customers who’ve already put in the app will have the ability to re-download it till October eighth.
Mozilla says it’s shuttering Pocket as a result of “the way in which individuals save and devour content material on the internet has advanced.” Pocket’s e-mail e-newsletter, known as Pocket Hits, will proceed beneath a brand new title, “Ten Tabs,” however it would now not have a weekend version.
Along with shutting down Pocket, Mozilla can also be sunsetting its pretend critiques detector, Fakespot. “We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to assist individuals navigate unreliable product critiques utilizing AI and privacy-first tech,” Mozilla says. “Whereas the concept resonated, it didn’t match a mannequin we might maintain.” Overview Checker, the Fakespot-powered software constructed into Firefox, is shutting down on June tenth, 2025, too.
”This shift permits us to form the following period of the web — with instruments like vertical tabs, sensible search and extra AI-powered options on the way in which,” Mozilla says. “We’ll proceed to construct a browser that works more durable for you: extra private, extra highly effective and nonetheless proudly unbiased.”
