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0 pointsstretchcat5y ago0 comments

I'm not certain, but doesn't a 'read only' reddit page still get changed when a user who was in it deletes their account and posts? Often when a search engine sends me to reddit, the comments that probably contained the relevant information are long gone.

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toomuchtodo5y ago· 2 in thread

You might be right, in which case Google should offer a link to the corresponding Internet Archive wayback page (where the deleted content should still exist).

Failing that, there are browser extensions for both Chrome and Firefox that enable this functionality.

stretchcatOP5y ago

I used IA's browser plugin that does this for a while, but unfortunately had to stop because it had too many false positives (sending me to archive pages for sites that were still live.) An extension that does this properly definitely interests me.

Dma54rhs5y ago

They have it in their cache themselves so they even wouldn't have to link to IA.

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