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

Or how to have 1984 running in your web browser. :)<p>But some people don&#x27;t care about their privacy any longer, because, well we probably have none at this point anyway.<p>So in for a penny, in for a pound.<p>Edit:<p>Consider putting something about privacy right at the top of the page, if such a feature exists. e.g all bookmarks are encrypted, and only the user has the key, or whatever.

It&#x27;s a neat concept, but your privacy policy is going to kill you. It&#x27;s incredibly boilerplate and vague, with no information about how you actually use the data.<p>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&#x27;s no way in hell I&#x27;d let a third-party like yours access the entirety of my browser history without seeing some evidence of vigorous privacy protection first.

Stop trying to make &quot;fetch&quot; happen.

I&#x27;ve wanted something like this a long time, but cloud is a deal breaker for me.<p>Anyone know of a similar local effort? (I spent 98% of my time on my own two machines anyway...)

Privacy concerns aside, it seems like a really useful service.<p>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&#x2F;search through previous versions?<p>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&#x27;s still helpful? Yet to be seen!<p>A little feedback on the page copy. Any time someone claims they have &quot;proprietary algorithms&quot; it sets off alarms. It&#x27;s empty jargon, and sounds scammy. Your headline &quot;Say Goodbye to Bookmarking Webpages&quot; is good because it speaks to people who already use bookmarking services and find them lacking. But &quot;Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before&quot; reaches a broader audience and also speaks to the actual problem they have.

okay, why should I let a third party access my browsing history?<p>Big player already do that.Why should I trust a small party too?<p>Not being cynical, just wanted to see if the payoff is worth the compromise.

I&#x27;ve been trying to design something along these lines now that Firefox aggressively prunes history with no user override ( it keeps barely five days worth on my laptop ).<p>However the main challenge is that much of the web is now SSL, so a light caching proxy isn&#x27;t feasible unless it does MiTM which I don&#x27;t want.<p>My current idea is to log DNS lookups but that doesn&#x27;t, of course, provide page content data.

I&#x27;ve wanted this feature for a long time. But you&#x27;re giving away gives me zero confidence that you&#x27;ll be around in a year.<p>Also something I&#x27;ve learned building a sass business: you need customer feedback. People who pay you money are properly motivated to give you the feedback you need.

Why does this even need to be in the cloud? Firefox can already do most of this offline.

<p><pre><code> &gt; Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before :) </code></pre> So.. instead of searching Google, I search Fetch? Meh, Google&#x27;s already on my screen (address bar).

Is this a joke? You actually want people to upload their history to the cloud. People don&#x27;t even want it on their own computers. That was the point of incognito mode!

OT but .. I love the rubik loading[0] intro!!<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getfetch.net&#x2F;img&#x2F;status.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;getfetch.net&#x2F;img&#x2F;status.gif</a>

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.

what&#x27;s the difference between this service and the one from Google (Chrome) described here? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;websearch&#x2F;answer&#x2F;54068?p=swaa&amp;hl=en&amp;authuser=0&amp;rd=1#chromeapp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;websearch&#x2F;answer&#x2F;54068?p=swaa&amp;hl=...</a>

Why would I switch to Fetch if I&#x27;m perfectly fine with using the default Google Chrome bookmark bar?

Being able see my history sorted by amount of time I spend on a page sounds like a good idea.

How will this work with the pages which have login?

thanks, but i&#x27;m already happy with my data &amp; soul being sold by Google &amp; Facebook. &#x2F;sarcasm

any plans for firefox addon?