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Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

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Post by atrophying »

It's a neat concept, but your privacy policy is going to kill you. It's incredibly boilerplate and vague, with no information about how you actually use the data.

If you want security-conscious folks to use your service (that is, hackers from HN), please provide more information about how you actually plan to use the data and more robust language about security and transparency. There's no way in hell I'd let a third-party like yours access the entirety of my browser history without seeing some evidence of vigorous privacy protection first.

Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

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Post by maha1979 »

olejorgenb wrote: post #25

I've wanted something like this a long time, but cloud is a deal breaker for me. Anyone know of a similar local effort? (I spent 98% of my time on my own two machines anyway...)

Its pretty heavy running all the software on a local machine. Would consume resources and tons of storage. Maybe if you bought a server, it could work out. Or maybe we could set you up with a private server...just thinking aloud.

Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

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Post by pvinis »

OJFord wrote: post #34

> Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before :) So.. instead of searching Google, I search Fetch? Meh, Google's already on my screen (address bar).

obviously you dont have the need for searching your history. searching on google is about finding something. searching your history is about finding something you already found once, spent time to do that, and is hard to find again by googling. my main need for searching history is when i look for apartments. i open 50-100, during a few days. then later im getting an answer from one of the owners, and i have to find the ad again. im not going to open all the ads avain, and of course the address is in the page content so i cannot search on tbe url bar. if i have a way to search my history with full text search on the page content too, that would be awesome.

and im still looking for that app/extension that will allow me to do that with firefox..

Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

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Post by spdustin »

udayaprakash19 wrote: post #23
cooperadymas wrote: post #20

Privacy 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…

Thanks for the kudos cooperadymas. We take a snapshot every time you visit the page. We don't version the page yet. Do you have a specific use case for a feature like that? There's a very strong correlation between time spent and usefulness of the article. We index all articles, even the ones you spend less time on, so when you search, a few page scrolls get you to the link you need. That said, time spent is a heuris…

Something like "don't re-search when doing research" maybe?

Re: Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history

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Post by maha1979 »

pvinis wrote: post #37
OJFord wrote: post #34

> Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before :) So.. instead of searching Google, I search Fetch? Meh, Google's already on my screen (address bar).

obviously you dont have the need for searching your history. searching on google is about finding something. searching your history is about finding something you already found once, spent time to do that, and is hard to find again by googling. my main need for searching history is when i look for apartments. i open 50-100, during a few days. then later im getting an answer from one of the owners, and i have to find…

Firefox version, coming your way soon! Care to connect at dev@tryheld.com? We'll keep you posted.
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