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by glenstein 479 days ago
>First the mobile apps lost the ability to show full web pages (“Web View”) while offline,

I've used Pocket on and off since back when it was called Read It Later and I don't recall it ever offering this feature (offline access to saved web page versions of articles), at least not outside of the premium service.

So I tried my best Googling skills, which seems to have increasingly diminishing returns with every passing day, but I did find a LinkedIn article from 2017 noting that this archive of web page feature was premium even then.

(Edit: It's worth noting that InstaPaper doesn't offer this either. Nor does Raindrop, nor did Omnivore (RIP) although you could print to PDF and upload it to Omnivore. The only article saver service I'm aware of that does is Wallabag, which is self-hosted.)

>10. Premium options

>So far, every feature has been free. If you upgrade to a premium plan, you'll get other features, such as permanent copies of your articles in case they're removed from the web, suggested tags to make bookmarking even easier, and the removal of sponsored posts from Your List.

>This post was originally published on Proof Is In the Writing on July 20, 2017.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complete-guide-pocket-ultimat...
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mananaysiempre 479 days ago
Those are two different features. The premium one saved (saves?) things on Pocket’s servers. The one I was talking about saved full web pages on your device. It wasn’t “permanent” in that, for example, if you reinstalled the app and the page had disappeared from the web, you’d lose it, but otherwise it worked well enough that at some point Pocket was the main consumer of storage on my phone.

The setting was “Always fetch Web View”, next to the still-extant “Always fetch Article View”, and searching for that phrase will give you some contemporary discussions[1,2]; alternatively, Pocket’s own docs on the Wayback Machine[3] will tell you that, as recently as 2022 (and at least as early as 2012[4]),

> Pocket will download the “Best View” by default. To override this decision, you can configure Pocket to always download Article View, Web View, or both.

> It’s possible to control whether Pocket downloads Article or Web View:

> [...]

> 4. Enable Always fetch Article View, Always fetch Web View, or both

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/noveltranslations/comments/405pyu/i...

[2] https://mfreidge.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/how-to-set-ios-poc... (disclaimer: I’ve never used the iOS version)

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20220801202820/https://help.getp... (I’m not sure it still worked at this point)

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20120712102128/http://help.getpo...

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