The Bookmark service Pocket operated by the Mozilla Foundation is about to end. As the foundation reports, it will be concluded in a few weeks. If you want to save your bookmarks, you have to act before you are lost.
“The way people use the web have developed further, so we channel our means in projects that fit their surfing habits and online needs better”. With this vague explanation, the Mozilla Foundation justifies this for the Bookmark app.
In one Blog entry The foundation specifies little: one wants to concentrate on the Firefox browser and improve the curated link recommendations there. As early as February 2024, Mozilla announced similar things and merged teams.
Already on May 22, the day of the announcement, Mozilla took the first steps to switch off Pocket: The web apps for Pocket can no longer be installed, but are still available for existing users. Anyone who has installed the browser add-on must uninstall it manually.
On July 8, 2025, Mozilla then blocked the door: Pocket can no longer be used normally from this day. Anyone who has completed a paid annual subscription will receive a proportionately reimbursement of the membership fee, and subscriptions billed per month will no longer be extended from the end of May.
Export bookmarks by October
But Pocket users are not yet completely locked out in July: the service switches to “export mode”. If you don’t want to do without your stored articles, notes and bookmarks from Pocket, you should definitely do so before October 8, 2025. On this day, Pocket finally closes his goals and Mozilla deletes all user accounts. Instructions for exporting the pocket lists can be found in Mozilla’s customer service area.
Mozilla bought the Pocket app in 2017 by developer Read IT Later Inc. to increase its mobile presence and strengthen the “Discovery”, ie the discovery of web content. Millions of people have been networked in the past eight years and won several prizes, the foundation recalled.
Fakespot also has no future
The Mozilla Foundation is drawing the plug in another project: for Fakespot, the foundation sees no future – apparently for economic reasons. Although the idea of an extension of the browser to recognize fake shops on the Internet was good, you could not find a sustainable business model. And so the short story of Fakespot at Mozilla, which started with the purchase in 2023, ends after only two years. On July 1, 2025, the browser expansion, the mobile apps and the fake-pot website will be switched off.
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