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Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by diafygi »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #15

Why do so many sites require cookies just to tell me what they are all about? Yes, I am of the lunatic fringe that blocks all cookies by default... ...and by default more and more web sites lose me as a potential client/user/whatev because they require cookies just to display static welcoming information... ...I lose nothing by this, as far as I can tell. Perhaps ignorance really is bliss. :->

One legit reason is to set a CSRF cookie. If there's a login or signup form on the page, many frameworks add a CSRF field to the form that should match the cookie. When you POST the form, the cookie and the field must match.

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by ryanpardieck »

sgibat wrote: post #23

I love this idea. Chrome's history is insufficient; I swear, it often doesn't record sites I've visited. But.. I'm not ready to trust an unknown process sending my entire browsing history to unknown servers. Excited for a potential local version.

Yeah, I noticed just today that it doesn't record everything! Very strange. Could turbolinks-alike implementations be throwing it off?

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by arikrak »

Looks interesting, I've often wanted to find old pages I've visited. Though I'll wait until it has a track record, before I trust it with my history.

It would also be important to rank searches well, since otherwise an entire history may have too much. Though this will be a hard area to take on Google...

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by ibrad »

I am going to wait for the local version for this one. I am working on a project that needs the full browsing history including content. You might have read read it here on HN[1]

The goal is to make my computer a search engine that can also recommend articles based on the ones I have visited. It can also check websites to see if there is any new content.

The project is still in its very early stages and any tool I can use will be very helpful. This looks just like what I need.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822859

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

gwern wrote: post #16
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #9

Do you just record n-grams indexed against the page url, are you then uploading that index? If you're not uploading it how is there no "local version" available? It's an interesting idea. Personally I have a script that wgets all the pages I bookmark and I very rarely use that content. What use cases are you anticipating?

What does indexing mean here? I'm not sure what it means to 'index' but not 'store' webpages as the frontpage says.

I assumed they meant that they extracted meta-data about the page (page mentions "Winnie the Pooh" for example, like a book index) and kept that associated with a key (eg URL) but didn't actually store the content per se. I was hoping the answer to my question would include that sort of detail - what's stored and where.

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by Jonovono »

drdaeman wrote: post #11

I was just looking for such indexer this exact evening. Unfortunately, logon via Twitter fails with 500 error bar flashing at the site's top and logon via FB fails with "App Not Setup: The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login.", so I can't try it. Nonetheless, my biggest worry is why this is a service instead of a standalone package. (Actually, I've considered trying with the ho…

Local version: https://github.com/idibidiart/AllSeeingEye
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