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Re:The sad state of personal data and infrastructure by rasz on Saturday December 21, 2019 @05:19PM (#21853661)
I went similar route after discovering Google Checkout refuses to return my YT comments. I wrote quick&dirty tempermonkey script logging submitted HTML forms (addEventListener "submit").
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Re:The sad state of personal data and infrastructure by TurkishPoptart on Saturday December 21, 2019 @05:40PM (#21853740)
Did it work the way a scraper does? Curious to know how you did this.
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Re:The sad state of personal data and infrastructure by rasz on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:36PM (#21855014)
I was only interested in stuff I posted on the internet for indexing/easier search, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormEle... and http://www.meekostuff.net/blog/Overriding-DOM-Methods/ covered form submissions, result goes to tempermonkey localstorage (GM_setValue).
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