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Chrome only preserves browsing history for 90 days. Keeping tabs open can work around that limitation

Without even bothering to check, this seems like it can't possibly be true. You are surely not saying that the billions of Chrome users worldwide have no browsing history from September or earlier, right?

"Your History page shows the webpages you've visited on Chrome in the last 90 days."[0]

Google's My Activity[1] stores everything though.

[0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95589

[1] https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Damn, that's ridiculously evil... why the hell am I only able to get basic functionality through a cloud service?!

That's absolutely right, at least in terms of the Chrome browser history. I always found this limitation astounding.

I use the History Trends Unlimited extension to work around this (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...)

With 5 years of history the stats page is a bit slow to load but the search feature works great and it can export to CSV

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