Archive.org has an extension that automatically downloads web pages you visit (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Merulox@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fpnmgdkabkmnadcjpehmlllkndpkmiak

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/

It will also detect when a webpage you are trying to visit is dead and will offer to replay an archived version

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[-] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] merulox@kbin.social 5 points 1 year 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@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

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