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 **ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline.**
 
-Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually dissapears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but they require saved URLs to be public, and they can't save every type of content.
+Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually dissapears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can't save every type of content.
 
 *ArchiveBox is an open source tool that helps organizations & individuals archive web content and retain control over their data: save copies of your bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr, download media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., snapshot research papers, and more...*