Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV’s The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.

    And while I don’t think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      35·
      2 months ago

      My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would’ve been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.

      The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    483·
    2 months ago

    I have disabled Pocket since it was first offered in FF.

  • MisterMoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    305·
    2 months ago

    Digg will take it over?

    I’ll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product

    • chrisbit@leminal.space
      English
      9·
      2 months ago

      As someone who’s never used Pocket but recently got a Kobo and saw there’s an integration, I was a little annoyed they were shutting it down. I wonder if Kobo will create their own service to fill the gap? Given how hackable the device is, I’m sure the community will if they don’t.

      • YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I hope that we can just transition form Mozilla Pocket to Digg Pocket without much hassle, but that probably won’t happen. I understand all the hate for Pocket I’ve seen over the last two days because it’s useless to most people, but man, there’s a really good use case for Kobo owners.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?

      But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Didn’t know he did something on Screen Savers. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.

    EDIT oh I see I misread the dates in OP. It makes more sense now.