Being able see my history sorted by amount of time I spend on a page sounds like a good idea.
Worked very well for our test user base of 30 users, hopefully it'll be useful to others as well
Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
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Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#12Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#13okay, why should I let a third party access my browsing history? Big player already do that.Why should I trust a small party too? Not being cynical, just wanted to see if the payoff is worth the compromise.
Hey Zuxfer, I'm the developer of the extension. Totally valid point, we thought a lot about privacy, and our approach to managing the issue is two fold 1. Your browsing history isn't identifiable on our databases since we use a random hash from your credentials to track your history. 2. We have absolutely no interest in using the data, even non-identifiable data for marketing purposes 3. We leave the final control in…
Not to be overly critical, but it sounds like you are asking us to just trust you with no proof of your claims.
How do we know that you in fact have properly randomized the hashes, really aren't using the data, and most importantly, how do we know you really are clearing the data from your servers when we ask you to? Are you going to make the source code available?
If its running on your servers, you have to plan to monetize right? How do you plan on doing that?
Edit: I should note it looks quite cool, and I am probably going to try it, but was wondering about the above points.
One additional question. Is it possible to ban specific sites from showing up? Like work related intranet things?
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#14Why does this even need to be in the cloud? Firefox can already do most of this offline.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Zuxfer, I'm the developer of the extension. Totally valid point, we thought a lot about privacy, and our approach to managing the issue is two fold 1. Your browsing history isn't identifiable on our databases since we use a random hash from your credentials to track your history. 2. We have absolutely no interest in using the data, even non-identifiable data for marketing purposes 3. We leave the final control in…
Not to be overly critical, but it sounds like you are asking us to just trust you with no proof of your claims. How do we know that you in fact have properly randomized the hashes, really aren't using the data, and most importantly, how do we know you really are clearing the data from your servers when we ask you to? Are you going to make the source code available? If its running on your servers, you have to plan to…
You can block sites from the settings button in the extension
Our plan is to work with an initial customer base to create enough features to let users support us directly through paid features, instead of resorting to mining data and throwing up ads to sustain. Thats your best clue as to why we're not interested in your data. We don't have a motive to do that.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#16Why does this even need to be in the cloud? Firefox can already do most of this offline.
We see the amount of links amassed by a person over time is his knowledgebase of sorts and we want it make it available to the user where ever he wants. We will be launching a mobile app soon, where in you can sign in and find any link from your history.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#17thanks, but i'm already happy with my data & soul being sold by Google & Facebook. /sarcasm
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#18okay, why should I let a third party access my browsing history? Big player already do that.Why should I trust a small party too? Not being cynical, just wanted to see if the payoff is worth the compromise.
Imagine hypothetically today you are researching a router. You would look up youtube video reviews, look it up in amazon may be craigslist, checkout consumer reports etc. The next day if want those links you will either comb your browser history or go those sites you visited again. But with fetch all you have to do is type the name of the router and it will show the links in descending order of time you have spent on…
Does fetch aggregate the logged time you've looked at the pages that you're now looking at to find the same page you found before and ruining all the results?
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Zuxfer, I'm the developer of the extension. Totally valid point, we thought a lot about privacy, and our approach to managing the issue is two fold 1. Your browsing history isn't identifiable on our databases since we use a random hash from your credentials to track your history. 2. We have absolutely no interest in using the data, even non-identifiable data for marketing purposes 3. We leave the final control in…
Not to be overly critical, but it sounds like you are asking us to just trust you with no proof of your claims. How do we know that you in fact have properly randomized the hashes, really aren't using the data, and most importantly, how do we know you really are clearing the data from your servers when we ask you to? Are you going to make the source code available? If its running on your servers, you have to plan to…
Yes... indeed... "work related" things... yes that is the problem... no other things... no.
Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history
#20Privacy concerns aside, it seems like a really useful service.
How do you handle page versioning? Do you take a new snapshot every time I visit - and do you keep the most recent version or can I look at/search through previous versions?
Ranking pages by how much time you spend on them seems great from a productivity standpoint. From a search standpoint, often the pages I want to go back and find ex post facto are the ones that I only looked at for a few seconds. So maybe it's still helpful? Yet to be seen!
A little feedback on the page copy. Any time someone claims they have "proprietary algorithms" it sets off alarms. It's empty jargon, and sounds scammy. Your headline "Say Goodbye to Bookmarking Webpages" is good because it speaks to people who already use bookmarking services and find them lacking. But "Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before" reaches a broader audience and also speaks to the actual problem they have.