Mozilla announced the closure of the Pocket service, which the company acquired in July 2017. In addition, the Firefox developer is also abandoning the Fakespot extension, which allows users to check the authenticity of online product reviews.
Pocket, which lets you save articles and other online pages for later viewing, will officially shut down on July 8, 2025. Starting May 22, the app can no longer be downloaded, just as you can no longer purchase a Pocket Premium subscription.
Users with an annual subscription will receive a refund on July 8, and you will be able to export or save all your data until October 8, 2025. After that, it will be automatically deleted.
"Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better," Mozilla said.
Fakespot will be shut down even earlier, on July 1, 2025. Users will then lose access to the extension, mobile app, and website. The Fakespot-based Review Checker feature in Firefox will stop working on June 10.
"We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain," Mozilla said in a statement.
The company also expresses its gratitude to the community that has supported both services and notes that it will continue to work on new features for Firefox. In particular, Mozilla recently added tab grouping and also began testing AI search based on Perplexity models.