If you love a website, back it up

Re:If you love a website, back it up by anilakar on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:35AM (#50348785)

I remember an old niche website I saw some 20 years ago. The whole content was dynamically loaded. If you disabled javascript, you were greeted with a static page that accused you of theft. Attempting to select and copy text or right click was resulted in a popup window saying the same.

Nowadays you can just slap your site behind Cloudflare, I guess.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by alpaca128 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:53AM (#50349627)

Nowadays you can open the dev tools before loading the site and then select or copy whatever you like in it.

But yeah some websites were really special. I remember one made by some Microsoft fan which was completely unusable outside Internet Explorer. It was like a static picture in any other browser, clicking links & buttons just didn't do anything.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by anilakar on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:20AM (#50351103)

Nowadays the same folks employ anti-devtools tricks such as the debugger; statement in their code.

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