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Brave Browser partners with Wayback Machine to fight 404 errors – Source CNET Computer News

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Brave’s new update gives you a notification to search the Wayback Machine when you encounter a 404 page, like this one on Amazon.


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Getting a 404 “page not found” error message is one of the most frustrating experiences of browsing the internet. You find a site through search or a link on a website and when you get there it’s gone. In a new update, the Brave Browser has teamed up with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to help make such an annoyance a thing of the past.

The update to the desktop version of Brave can take you to an archived version of the page with just a click by putting a drop-down notification asking if you’d like to “check for saved version” of the page you’re…

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