{"id":63098,"date":"2021-07-12T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2020\/10\/05\/break-free-from-the-doomscroll-with-pocket\/"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:26:14","slug":"break-free-from-the-doomscroll-with-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/deep-dives\/break-free-from-the-doomscroll-with-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Break free from the doomscroll with Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year a new phrase crept into the zeitgeist: doomscrolling, the tendency to get stuck in a bad news content cycle even when consuming it makes us feel worse. That\u2019s no surprise given that 2020 was one for the books with an unrelenting flow of calamitous topics, from the pandemic to murder hornets to wild fires. Even before we had a name for it and real life became a Nostradamus prediction, it was all too easy to fall into the doomscroll trap. Many content recommendation algorithms<\/a> are designed to keep our eyeballs glued to a screen, potentially leading us into more questionable, extreme or ominous territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pocket<\/a>, the content recommendation and saving service from Mozilla, offers a brighter view, inviting readers to take a different direction with high-quality content and an interface that isn’t designed to trap you or bring you down. You can get great recommendations<\/a> and also save content to your Pocket<\/a>, both in the app and through Firefox, every time you open a new tab in the browser. Pocket doesn\u2019t send you down questionable rabbit holes or bombard you with a deluge of depressing or anxiety-producing content. Its recommendations are vetted by thoughtful, dedicated human editors who do a lot of reading and watching so you don\u2019t have to dig through the muck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n