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.
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
Tbh, most websites I visit probably aren’t that important that they need to be archived. I would assume installing this extension would just contribute to a bloated archive with little additional value.
From my understanding, the Internet Archive’s goal (granted that they manage to get through their current dilemma) is to archive the whole Internet, I wouldn’t consider it to be bloat.
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Digital is only permanent if we duplicate everything y’all
My desire to help archive.org preserve the Internet is conflicting with my desire not to have anybody tracking my browsing habits.
https://internetarchive.github.io/wayback-machine-webextension/privacy-policy.html
Is this just for personal purposes or would I be contributing to the internet archive?
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.
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
…now where is my external hd.
Tbh, most websites I visit probably aren’t that important that they need to be archived. I would assume installing this extension would just contribute to a bloated archive with little additional value.
From my understanding, the Internet Archive’s goal (granted that they manage to get through their current dilemma) is to archive the whole Internet, I wouldn’t consider it to be bloat.