• Merulox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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@kbin.social
      0·
      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
        1·
        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
          1·
          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.