Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services
a year ago
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- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket and Fakespot services to focus more on Firefox.
- Pocket will stop working on July 8, 2025, with saved articles to be deleted by October 8.
- Fakespot, a service for spotting fake product reviews, is also being discontinued.
- Deep Fake Detector, a Firefox extension for detecting AI-generated text, will shut down on June 26, 2025.
- Orbit, Mozilla's privacy-first AI experiment, will also be discontinued by June 26, 2025.
- Mozilla is shifting its AI features to a new sidebar in Firefox, integrating third-party chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini.
- Orbit's key privacy feature—handling prompts within Mozilla's GCP instance without sharing data—will be lost.
- Mozilla cites limited resources as the reason for these cuts, focusing on core Firefox development to compete.