Idly wondering how folks who are deep into personal web archiving (i.e. keeping full clones of pages or sites they've bookmarked) handle sharing those snapshots with friends or the general public, especially in this age of abusive bot scrapers.
Guessing the answer is "keep it all behind lock and key, and deal with the friction that represents on both ends"? Maybe some form of ephemeral/unguessable/unlisted sharing URL? (and obviously, bespoke tactics like Anubis.)
I'm putting the cart before the horse here, obviously, as I don't even have ArchiveBox or w/e set up yet š
Jeff Forcier
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2026-05-03 17:14:23 UTC
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