• @MeruloxOP
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    1011 months ago

    Purely to contribute to the internet archive. There’s the “save page now” button that’ll save the webpage to your account, but the automatic downloader that I refer to in the post doesn’t do that and is purely for the sake of expanding the archive.

    • LoafyLemon
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      511 months ago

      How safe is it to have automatic page saving enabled when using websites that require an account? Can it potentially dox oneself?

      • merulox
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        1111 months ago

        it doesn’t literally scrape the web page off your browser, it just sends a download request to the internet archive to download the webpage associated with the URL that you’re visiting

        -replying from kbin because lemmy just wouldn’t let me reply… I’d been trying for over 20 minutes.

        • LoafyLemon
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          311 months ago

          I wasn’t sure if it was using the client to capture the snapshot or not, better safe than sorry! Thanks for explaining.

    • @iRyu
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      211 months ago

      The I’ll definitely be doing this. Happy to contribute to the archive, especially because it came in clutch during the other site’s blackout. Digital preservation is not supported enough