General Discussion • Re: wtf? almost every forum and website is on cloudflare now?

You'll be surprised how simple things can get if you just politely ask for a copy of public information for safekeeping.

Contacting the owner and asking for help is a fairly complex task to automate. It involves at least one person (the website owner), and their response is human-readable, meaning it's not formalized for automated processing. Multiply this by the number of websites, and the task becomes so labor-intensive that it's practically insurmountable. I think people will eventually come to some kind of formalized, global solution. And by the way, I'm curious: when the offline copy of old extensions from the Mozilla website was created, was it done by contacting the website owners and Mozilla preparing an archive? Somehow, I don't think that was the case.