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1222 points phantomathkg | 2 comments | 22 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source

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pavel_lishin ◴[22 May 25 16:33 UTC] No.44063681[source]▶

I'm strangely sad about this, even though this became yet another place for my bookmarks to go to die.

1. dylan604 ◴[22 May 25 17:18 UTC] No.44064255[source]▶

did anyone ever offer a method of detecting link rot in bookmarks automagically? i gave up on using bookmarks a very long time ago after finding so many links no longer working.

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2. amlib ◴[22 May 25 17:37 UTC] No.44064506[source]▶

>>44064255 (TP) #

Not automatically but when you open a dead link you can ease the pain by using an extension such as "page archive" [1] to quickly search an archive such as the wayback machine and perhaps get something useful out of it.

I've always wished a browser such Firefox would extend bookmarks as an offline archive of all links you add to it. Your own personal wayback machine perhaps.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/

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