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The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
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[–] beckerist@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (4 children)

archive.org is a treasure

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They have a browser extension that archives any page you visit automatically. It’s the laziest way to help contribute and I love it.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Link for anyone curious

There's also this purpose-built one if anyone is only interested in the save functionality

[–] binom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

does this actually help the internet archive in any way? as in are your local ressources used or ad revenue generated? i fail to see how telling them to archive everything you visit is of any help to them. other than you being basically a crawler, i guess

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think your missing the point. As you browse throughout your lifetime you will eventually come across a site that went down that you used to frequent. If you are contributing in this manner the content you viewed is guaranteed to be archived and you will know where to start looking since you already had this set up. It just also adds the extra benefit for everyone else who wants to look.

[–] binom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i still think this kind of shotgun approach is not ideal, and the extension seems more like a service to me than a way to help the ia. so "help contribute" is not the wording i would chose. but i very well might be missing the point. i do love the internet archive and their fight for information freedom, don't get me wrong. this was more of a nitpick.

[–] burak@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Donate!

[–] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Long time fan but suddenly hit with impassable captcha 🤔