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Case 02 — Preservation

Save a webpage before it gets deleted

Paste the URL below — now, while the page is still up. SnapMySite captures the entire page with a real browser and emails you a timestamped copy within about thirty seconds. After that, no edit, takedown, or "content no longer available" can touch your copy.

Captured in ~30 seconds · emailed to you · $1 gets 5 captures

Pages disappear more often than you'd think

Listings get edited after you book. Posts get deleted after they're challenged. Sellers "update" descriptions after a sale goes wrong. Studies of link rot have found that most webpages don't survive a decade — and the ones that matter in a disagreement tend to vanish much faster, usually right after the disagreement starts.

Once a page is gone, your options are bad: the Wayback Machine may never have crawled it, cached copies expire within days, and a screenshot on your own phone is easy for the other side to dismiss — you could have taken it any time, or made it yourself.

Why an emailed capture is the strong copy

  1. It's made by a third party. SnapMySite's servers fetch and photograph the page — you never touch the file before it's sealed.
  2. It's timestamped twice. The capture records the UTC moment it was taken, and the email in your inbox is its own independent, dated record.
  3. It's tamper-evident. Each file carries a SHA-256 hash, so you can show it hasn't been altered since capture.
  4. It can't be un-published. Public archives honor takedown requests. Your inbox doesn't.

Capture first, argue later

The rule of thumb from every dispute forum is the same: the time to preserve a page is the moment you first think "I might need this." Captures cost a fraction of a dollar. The page being gone costs the argument.

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