How To Back Up Your Porn Tumblr
Yahoo bought Tumblr. {everybody cries} Tumblr’s already locked away all the porn blogs so they can’t be searched or archived. Maybe it’s time to back up your adult Tumblr before Yahoo kills it completely? Here’s how:
As a general proposition, one should usually instruct one’s electronic robot spider minions to follow robots.txt rules; unruly robot spiders are a menace to the internet and to web servers everywhere. But this principle of polite internet behavior assumes that you haven’t had your own data locked behind the hostile barbed wire of some corporate data-silo forced-labor camp where the robots.txt has been put in place to hide your porny visage so that the corporate camp commissars will look prettier in the pages of Forbes Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. When it’s your data, you’re perfectly within your moral rights to ignore the robots.txt in order to extricate it; and so that’s what we’re going to do here…