whenever i go through my bookmarks, i tend to find maybe 5-10% are now 404.
this is why i like the archive.ph project so much and using it more as a kind of bookmarking service.
this is why i like the archive.ph project so much and using it more as a kind of bookmarking service.
i also find archive.ph much faster at searching, and the browser extension is really useful too.
the faq does a great job of explaining too https://archive.ph/faq
fwiw the website is only accessible by VPN in a lot of countries, which is say a lot for me..and i don't think they've taken down any content, although i cant say for sure.
The data saved on your NAS will outlast this site regardless of who owns/funds it.
Concealing ownership would tend to help avoid this / minimise consequences.
That might still be a brittle defence.
• WHOIS points to a "Denis Petrov" in Prague
• Share menu has buttons for Reddit, VKontakte, Twitter, Pinboard, and Livejournal. Eyebrow raising. VK is Russian, and so is LJ nowadays. Pinboard (notable as successor of del.icio.us) is American, coincidentally founded by a Polish immigrant.
• With a sizable dose of confirmation bias, the mistakes in the English of the site and blog do feel appropriately Slavic
It's stated to be privately funded with costs around US$4000/month, began accepting donations in 2016 (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today#Vital_S...)
Motivation / utility is a question that's occurred to me more than once.
archive.org indexes all URLs first-class and presents as close to what was originally served as possible. It also stores arbitrary binary files and captures JS and Flash interactivity with remarkable fidelity.
When logged in, the archive.org Save Page Now interface gains the options of taking a screenshot and non-recursively saving all linked pages. I cannot reason why—the more saved, the better, right?
archive.org has a browser extension too