I&#x27;m anti-cloud. e.g. I run my own mail server and do web hosting for fun.  I have a poster of Snowden in my office.<p>But I signed up for Pocket because it does two things very well.   It lets me send things to my Kobo e-reader via email and gets around pay-walled content.  I don&#x27;t recall ever seeing ads either.<p>I don&#x27;t pay for the service because I don&#x27;t need the for-pay features, but would in fact pay for the basic service if it wasn&#x27;t free.  I wouldn&#x27;t even mind if they in turn payed NYT, New Yorker, etc for the content I&#x27;m getting.