I feel like you're arguing against some fictitious adversary. You're arguing against things no one here is saying.
Archives existed before archive websites. I've basically "saved" numerous webpages I liked locally. You can also print them (physically, on paper). I have loads of software like CS5 before everything became subscription only so that heaven forbid I can still have certain tools if the web goes down or adobe goes under.
And even little apps like resizers, file converters, drivers, all come in handy.
I also don't get the vitriol. No one here attacked you, but you are going on a tear.
That has nothing to do with everyone in this little forum and this forum only, exclusively following this gay trend of posting everything behind some archive link.
Dude I don't give a shit if you want to print out the internet and store it in your potato cellar. I care that half the links on this forum are obfuscated behind a shitty "service" that just makes everything fucking annoying to use, forces me to negotiate with an annoying captcha half the time, takes ten times longer to load, all to read a single fucking tweet from @cumburglar69420
It's retarded and it's only this place that does it. And nobody can even explain it. The best explanation I got was a clownish belief that someday someone might want to find this article in its original state, yet by archiving it, it makes it functionally irretrievable.
It's retarded and it's only this place that does it. And nobody can even explain it.
It's to deny clicks and ad revenue to commie journalists. Or in twitter's case, it's to allow people who don't want to create an account to read the whole thread instead of just one linked post. Also, it can be used to get around paywalls.
I feel like you're arguing against some fictitious adversary. You're arguing against things no one here is saying.
Archives existed before archive websites. I've basically "saved" numerous webpages I liked locally. You can also print them (physically, on paper). I have loads of software like CS5 before everything became subscription only so that heaven forbid I can still have certain tools if the web goes down or adobe goes under.
And even little apps like resizers, file converters, drivers, all come in handy.
I also don't get the vitriol. No one here attacked you, but you are going on a tear.
That has nothing to do with everyone in this little forum and this forum only, exclusively following this gay trend of posting everything behind some archive link.
Dude I don't give a shit if you want to print out the internet and store it in your potato cellar. I care that half the links on this forum are obfuscated behind a shitty "service" that just makes everything fucking annoying to use, forces me to negotiate with an annoying captcha half the time, takes ten times longer to load, all to read a single fucking tweet from @cumburglar69420
It's retarded and it's only this place that does it. And nobody can even explain it. The best explanation I got was a clownish belief that someday someone might want to find this article in its original state, yet by archiving it, it makes it functionally irretrievable.
It's to deny clicks and ad revenue to commie journalists. Or in twitter's case, it's to allow people who don't want to create an account to read the whole thread instead of just one linked post. Also, it can be used to get around paywalls.
Use Nitter or XCancel then.
As for "clicks", lmao. What you guys can't figure out an ad blocker? Do you think they're going to miss all seventeen "clicks" from this site?