Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by maha1979 » Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 6:40 PM UTC

atrophying wrote: post #31

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…

atrophying, we're working on a privacy page that lays out our privacy policy in user-friendly terms. Give us a couple of days to get this sorted. thanks for the input.

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

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Post by techaddict009 » Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

How will this work with the pages which have login?

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

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Post by drvortex » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 12:34 AM UTC

Is this a joke? You actually want people to upload their history to the cloud. People don't even want it on their own computers. That was the point of incognito mode!

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

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Post by maha1979 » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:58 AM UTC

Already__Taken wrote: post #18

udayaprakash19 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The search results are ranked by engagement, so yes, if you're currently looking at a page related to say python and spend lots of time on it, then when you search python on the extension, it will show up near the top. But what we've noticed is that the ratio of useful pages to useless pages in browser history is very high, and so when we rank by engagement, all valuable pages end up on top. Hope this answers your query.

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

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Post by maha1979 » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 8:59 AM UTC

nik61 wrote: post #33

Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.

Hi Nik, yes, we had some trouble with the load yesterday, you could try now if you like, its all sorted out.

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

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Post by maha1979 » Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 9:01 AM UTC

techaddict009 wrote: post #42

How will this work with the pages which have login?

In the case of pages with login, Fetch will only be able to store the title of the page, but not the content. We are working on integrations to connect services to Fetch search, we currently have Gmail, Dropbox and Google Drive on our list. Any particular service you want search to be available on?