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Debate: my browser bookmark folder of 'useful tools' turned into 47 dead links
I cleaned out my bookmarks last Tuesday and found a folder I named 'Handy Stuff' back in 2019. Out of 47 bookmarks in there, 34 were completely dead, redirecting to spam pages or just showing error screens. The rest were mostly tools I never opened more than twice, like a pixel ruler and a font pairing generator. So here's the debate: should we aggressively purge bookmarks monthly, or keep them as a time capsule of our past interests? I lean toward deleting more, but my wife says she loves finding old random stuff, like that link to a bread calculator from 2016. Has anyone else faced this mess, and did you nuke the folder or preserve it for nostalgia?
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reesecraig25d ago
The 'bread calculator from 2016' thing is too real, I've got bookmarks to sites that died years ago and I still can't delete them. My move is a middle ground: nuke anything that 404s or redirects to junk immediately, but keep the weird ones that still work even if I never use them. The dead links are just clutter, but the time capsule stuff is actually kinda fun to stumble on.
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