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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is youtube what people see as "the internet" nowadays? There are millions of websites out there with unimaginable troves of valuable information that isnt available anywhere else. When you actually do anything productive like research, art, engineering, cooking, etc. you often look for very specific info and when you find it you might want to archive it, because websites constantly just disappear forever, never to be seen again. Preserving the exact formatting is often very important too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    This doesn't answer my question. There were two examples given in the OP, YouTube and Mastodon (which I don't use).

    Research, engineering, and cooking are all things I do and I can't think of a case where I'd want to save all the Javascript on a web page. If anything most interfaces are way too heavy these days. Usually saving a media file, or a pdf, or copy/ pasting text, or at most a screenshot is perfectly fine.

    What do you end up using this for?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Probably youtube is just a bad example in this case. But javascript heavy pages were regular SaveAs doesn't really work definitely exist, and the value is in preserving those websites information and formatting

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