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Archive.org has an extension that automatically downloads web pages you visit (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by 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It will also detect when a webpage you are trying to visit is dead and will offer to replay an archived version

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[–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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