How to make it impossible for your site to be archived or saved.

It's easy to make it impossible to archive your page on the Wayback Machine or save it locally.

In a nutshell, use the lit.dev framework and HTTP POST instead of HTTP GET to load everything.

The Lit.dev framework is designed to be as hostile to web archival as possible. Even worse than React.dev, which was pretty bad already.

Lit.dev puts the entire site into a so-called shadow DOM (also known as shadow-root), which makes it unarchivable. This means the entire site is not a simple unified document with some text and formatting, but each area of the page is a document of its own that is embedded on the page visible on the browser.

HTTP POST makes sure that the content has no dedicated URL, which means all content is served from the same URL (not the same URL shown in the URL bar), which adds another barrier to archiving, since it mixes up . That's also the reason the Wayback Machine can't save YouTube comments.

It also makes it impossible to save your page, since web browsers can not save contents inside shadow DOMs. So lit.dev is another attempt by Google to DRM the internet.

See this Louis Rossmann video: "Google's trying to DRM the internet".

(Ironically, the website of lit.dev does not use the lit.dev framework!)

An HTML-based site is supported by every browser released in the last 30 years, though the layout may be broken on older browsers, the content is still visible. A lit.dev based site requires modern complicated browsers or headless browsers that are hundreds of megabytes large.

An HTML-based site directly serves all content on the surface web. A lit.dev-based site requires the browser to dig through thousands of lines of script code to be able to access the content.

The only way to save a Lit.dev and HTTP POST-based page is by using a HAR (HTTP archive) or WARC recorder, but this requires special tools and can not be viewed in a web browser.

Lit.dev is blatant anti-archive technology.

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