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I’ve found that all the web archiving software I’ve encountered are either manual (you have to archive everything individually in a separate application) or crawler-based (which can end up putting a lot of extra load on smaller web server, and could even get your ip blocked). Are there any solutions that simply automatically archive web pages as you load them in your browser? If not, why aren’t there? I could also see something like that being useful as a self-hosted web indexer, where if you ever go “I think I’ve seen this name before”, you can click on it, and your computer will say something like “this name appeared in a news headline you scrolled past two weeks ago”

Hi, I promise I have no unethical intentions with this post. And forgive the cheesy stock photo; I wasn’t sure what to put there. Avoiding specifics, a friend of mine has a physically-distant, yet emotionally-close, family member go silent for no apparent reason. This person has a history of mental illness and dissapearing from time to time, but it’s been a year, and my friend is worried. The family member doesn’t have much of a social media presence, and we don’t know anyone who could check on them in-person. Right now I only know their name and a vague idea of their location (which is in the United States). Here’s my question (and some followup questions): How can I find any information about their existence online? Are there any public government records I could search through? I know there’s a ton of advertising data collected by phones somewhere out there. Could that be useful in some way?