Thread: Pocket Will Stop Working on Kobo
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Old 07-01-2023, 01:28 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef View Post
I guess my feeling is why does Pocket need a modern browser to work? Somehow Dropbox and Google Drive are working on Kobo without a modern browser.

If it's about "security", this is a solved problem. You make app-specific passwords for the Pocket account and allow the app limited access to Pocket's APIs. It's been done for years with 3rd-party email clients and Outlook/Gmail accounts.

Google Drive and Dropbox both only share a read-only listing of a specific directory. Pocket offers the same rudimentary access, though at least Pocket on Kobo allowed us to archive or remove read articles. That’s more than Google Drive and Dropbox have allowed. However, it seems that Kobo is building in better support for Pocket now that Pocket is trying to phase out legacy logins. Wanting more modern and secure logins isn’t a bad thing. There had to have been a server vulnerability that necessitated this change. I’m just glad to hear Kobo is updating things to continue support for Pocket.
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