Data is being scrubbed from government free access data websites and agency websites. There may be some threat to private sector sites, as well, though that remains to be seen. If you enjoy any data such as articles or useful information online, I suggest you save it in multiple ways if you don't already.
You can archive some of that on the Wayback Machine at internetarchive.org though some websites don't archive properly, so make sure to search and click when you archived to see if it actually saved. This is how some pages of the old ZS boards were saved.
On mobile, saving an entire article as an image is as simple as clicking the double down arrows when you snap the screenshot and just hold those down until you reach the end of the article. I don't know if it is different on i-devices, but this is how I do it on Android. Somebody please let me know if there is a way to do this on a Windows PC. A caveat about this is ads as sometimes ads will obscure the text as you scroll. You can add an ad-blocking extension to your mobile browser of choice to mitigate this to some extent. It's best to use one that blocks pop-up ads as inline ads aren't really a problem.
Please share how else to save information that otherwise may be lost.
Some examples:
Thousands of datasets have been removed from the open-source government archive data.gov
https://mashable.com/article/government-datasets-disappear-since-trump-inauguration
Health agencies remove information on certain topics
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites
CDC researchers instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms even from outside journals, including "gender" and "pregnant person," among others
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
Climate Web Pages Erased and Obscured
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-web-pages-erased-and-obscured-under-trump/
That´s ... dystopian.
:rfh:
If you use any data online and you don't have a local copy of it, there is a chance you may not be able to access it in the future...
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/)
It's the scope of the data scrubbing that I find most disturbing.
Quote from: majorhavoc on February 04, 2025, 09:42:43 AMIt's the scope of the data scrubbing that I find most disturbing.
Yes. So much has been removed on the practitioner guidance side of our health sites. Most practitioner guidance for women's health has been removed except for guidance on autoimmune disorders, for example. Even guidance for contraception was taken down. Also, the data sheets that doctors are required to provide with vaccinations were removed, which could have effectively made it illegal to give vaccinations had those sheets not been available on non-government websites. And that's not even the whole tip of the iceberg for just the health sites, much less all other data like EPA, ATF, Ag, etc.
There are several ways to save a webpage on a PC. Three of them are:
1. Print it to Adobe Acrobat (PFD)
2. Save (CTRL-S) and you usually get 3 options
a. Single File
b. Complete - this creates a directory structure with all the necessary files
c. HTML only
I usually save as a PDF as it's "portable"