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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by ryanSrich on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:26AM (#16967827)
One of the first things I do with any article that I've enjoyed is download an HTML copy and create a PDF. Too many times I've bookmarked something only to come back a year later and it's gone.
Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by pasbesoin on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:11PM (#16970376)
I used the Firefox extension Scrapbook, until the change to WebExtensions killed it.

I feel changes like this are incrementally making the Web "theirs" and not "ours".

Separately, someone replied on here to me, a few months ago, that archive.org's policy for respecting -- or not -- robots.txt was in the process of changing.

I don't think that putting up a robots.txt policy should be able to retroactively remove from archive what was previously public. All the more so when the domain in question has changed hands.

But I expect this nonsense to continue. So, I only trust local copies.

Unfortunately, for me, killing the Scrapbook extension made them less convenient to collect.

Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by disillusioned1 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:53PM (#16980052)
Do you know about Web ScrapBook, a WebExtensions successor to ScrapBook X?

https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook

Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by pasbesoin on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:25PM (#16982038)
Thank you. I will look at this.

I looked for alternatives, around the time Firefox stable transitioned. I recall that ScrapbookX was going to try to transition. There was language about writing to browser local storage, but that appeared to me to be too constrained for my use, as well as not yet being in place.

Since then, I've taken more cursory looks but not found a suitable extension. I recently learned about Wallabag, but it did not appear to have the same amount of facility; nonetheless, I want to set it up and give it a go.

I've been a little distracted, this winter. So, I've not problem solved like I should.

Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by dorgo on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:47PM (#16970761)
What are the intentions of mozilla? Is it "let's take away control from users", or is it "we don't care about what our users want"? What a fail..
Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by Semirhage on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:43PM (#16969356)
Me too, and I don’t rely on cloud or streaming services. If I really like a song or article or book, I buy it some form and then download (if necessary through alternative channels) a copy. I bought a bunch of audio books from Audible years ago, and taking the time to convert them to MP3 has made my life much easier.

Streaming, clouds and DRM protection are fine for discovery, but if you love something, archive it. Storage is so cheap after all!

Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by eneveu on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:24AM (#16977791)
I use [Pinboard](https://pinboard.in/) to bookmark interesting pages. It archives a copy of the page for private use, which I can access later if the page is deleted.
Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by ivankolev on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:52AM (#16968110)
I started using Firefox for Android partly because of its excellent Save page as PDF feature.
Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by ssarodia on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @06:09PM (#16972193)
Just fyi, on Chrome on Android you can Share -> Print -> Save as PDF.