Is youtube what people see as “the internet” nowadays? There are millions of websites out there with unimaginable troves of valuable information that isnt available anywhere else. When you actually do anything productive like research, art, engineering, cooking, etc. you often look for very specific info and when you find it you might want to archive it, because websites constantly just disappear forever, never to be seen again. Preserving the exact formatting is often very important too.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
This doesn’t answer my question. There were two examples given in the OP, YouTube and Mastodon (which I don’t use).
Research, engineering, and cooking are all things I do and I can’t think of a case where I’d want to save all the Javascript on a web page. Usually saving a media file, or a pdf, or copy/ pasting text, or at most a screenshot is perfectly fine.
What do you end up using this for?
kjetil@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Probably youtube is just a bad example in this case. But javascript heavy pages were regular SaveAs doesn’t really work definitely exist, and the value is in preserving those websites information and formatting
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
What websites?
ieGod@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I’d imagine some sites with computations and modeling that are more niche. Software cost models, financial planning sites, statistics calculators and the like would be good candidates I would think.