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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by gruez on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:18PM (#10855286)
You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. Even in the full article they only mention a confidential source, which makes sense because even if it was real, it's very easy to cause a crash without leaving a trace in the app. For instance, the server might purposefully send a malformed response that causes the client to crash.

full article mirror: https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg

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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by sparky_ on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:45PM (#10855397)
Did you use some tool or browser extension to generate this?
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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by vmarsy on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:32PM (#10856001)
No the one you asked either, but I usually email [email protected] [1] from my Gmail account with the URL in the subject, and it saves the page as content AND as a long picture.

It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick.

[1]https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote

[2]http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-bes...

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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by greenleafjacob on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:23AM (#10857127)
Sounds like Stallman's web program. [1]

> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by melloc on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:57AM (#10856253)
In Firefox's developer toolbar (Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar), you can type 'screenshot --fullpage' and it will save an image of the entire page for you.
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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by lelandbatey on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @09:14PM (#10855517)
I am not the person you asked, but I take screenshots for archival purposes not-infrequently (as seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845275).

The tool that I use is Phantomjs with a script called 'rasterize.js`. The big plus for me was the ability to render arbitrary dpi images of web pages.

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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by incepted on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @09:58PM (#10855674)
> You can bypass the paywall by entering your email.

No. I tried before commenting: you need to enter a credit card too.

And the trick of looking up the article title on Google didn't work either.

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Re:Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty? by incepted on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:02PM (#10855686)
Thanks for the mirror.

I didn't find any mention in the article of this "voluntary crash" claim, did I miss it?

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