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Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This "machine state" definition and manipulation is exactly the hard part of the concept. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's a beast of a problem.

Our best current solutions are just dumb web crawler bots.

To me a simple page saving (ctrl+s) integration seems like a most realistic solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

I mean the engine already has a full machine state. I could just run firefox inside a VM and snapshot the VM to save the website in a idle-disconnected state. So it's a matter of doing something more sane and efficient than this