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# FAQ
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# FAQ
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## Does SingleFile upload any data to third-party servers?
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## Does SingleFile upload any data to third-party servers?
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-As stated in the [privacy policy](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/privacy.md), SingleFile does not upload any data to third-party servers. All the work is done in your browser. However, when you save a page with SingleFile, it can download resources (images, CSS, frame contents, fonts etc.) that are not displayed or not cached but present in the page.
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+As stated in the [privacy policy](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/privacy.md), SingleFile does not upload any data to third-party servers. All the work is done in your browser. However, when you save a page with SingleFile, it can download resources (images, CSS, frame contents, fonts etc.) that are not displayed or not already cached but present in the page.
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## Why can't I save some pages like https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/single-file?
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## Why can't I save some pages like https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/single-file?
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For security purposes, browsers block web extensions on certain domains. This prevents a malicious extension to remove or change bad reviews, for example.
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For security purposes, browsers block web extensions on certain domains. This prevents a malicious extension to remove or change bad reviews, for example.
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## Why pages saved with SingleFile weight more than uncompressed MAFF files?
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## Why pages saved with SingleFile weight more than uncompressed MAFF files?
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To integrate them into the HTML file, all binary resources such as images or fonts are transformed into [data URIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme). These URIs allow the binary content to be encoded in [base64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) and to be stored as text in the HTML file. When encoded in base64, a binary resource will weigh about 33% more. This overload also has an impact on the size of the saved page.
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To integrate them into the HTML file, all binary resources such as images or fonts are transformed into [data URIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme). These URIs allow the binary content to be encoded in [base64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) and to be stored as text in the HTML file. When encoded in base64, a binary resource will weigh about 33% more. This overload also has an impact on the size of the saved page.
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-If you're using Firefox, you may consider using [SingleFileZ](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ) which is able to compress saved pages and their assets.
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+If you're using Firefox, you may consider using [SingleFileZ](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ) which is able to compress saved pages and their assets into a self extracting HTML/ZIP hybrid file.
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Gildas Lormeau