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I don't think it's possible to remove information about yourself from a webpage before you share it. It's always possible to have crafted a website that sneaks reflected session information or the instance of archivebox's IP address into the main content. This can be a real response:

> And that was this week's newsletter! Congratulation for reading to the bottom, dear 198.51.100.1.

Even if the archivebox instance noted its own IP to do a search-and-replace like s|198\.51\.100\.1|XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX| on the snapshot it is about to create, it's possible to craft a response that obscures the presence of the information, such as by encoding the IP like this: MTk4LjUxLjEwMC4xCg==. I.e. steganography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography).

Being able to anonymize archives before sharing them is something I would find interesting, but I don't think you can beat steganography, so I'm wondering what exactly you mean you plan to do.




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