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 your hands, if you feel your privacy is breached, you can clear all your data from our servers and uninstall the extension.
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?
Also, to answer why an extension for Browser History:
1. Fetch indexes page content as well as the titles and URLs of your history, making it easy to find links
2. Fetch ranks search results by engagement which means the most useful links usually surface on top when you search.
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 various websites associated with the router :) Imagine the time saved :D
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?
maha1979|10 years ago
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 your hands, if you feel your privacy is breached, you can clear all your data from our servers and uninstall the extension.
Here's our privacy policy for reference - https://getfetch.net/privacy.html
Bedon292|10 years ago
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?
maha1979|10 years ago
1. Fetch indexes page content as well as the titles and URLs of your history, making it easy to find links 2. Fetch ranks search results by engagement which means the most useful links usually surface on top when you search.
udayaprakash19|10 years ago
Already__Taken|10 years ago