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by 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...