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If anyone is interested in searches applied to the full text of every page in your browser history, or to only select pages that you bookmark, check out our project DownloadNet (formerly, and possibly, futurely: "DiskerNet").

It hooks into your browser to give you an augmented experience. The UI is pretty simple (think 1997 era google but without CSS haha), and we don't do anything super complex with search (but could in future), but it works not bad. Check it out!!!

https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet

Oh, it also makes your content (again either everything you browsed or only what you booked) available offline. So if you work on an oil rig, or shipping, or long haul freight, can be a good way to browse as normal but save yer satellite bandwidth!!!

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I don't see any documentation at all, like what browsers are supported, etc. :/

Me neither, it really would benefit from a better documentation since I like the idea a lot.

I just tried it out and it seems to be tied to Chrome. Since I use Firefox and Chromium as my daily drivers this does not work for my case. I understand that they probably rely on some Chrome internals to dig through the content, a SOCKS Proxy approach would have worked better and would have no need to switch between a "save" and "serve" mode. But then again I was only scraping the top of it because of the lack of browser support. Will keep an eye on this one though!

While it lacks a search feature last I checked there's always https://github.com/davidfstr/webcrystal

One .py file. Only one dependency (urllib3).n with a little love the concept could become a full transparent proxy.

it's unclear to me why anyone, particularly anyone with even a passing interest in what the topic of this submission has to offer, would be even remotely interested in being the "master archivist of your own internet browsing."

i don't need anything else archiving anything related to my internet browsing except for my human brain. and yes, that's just me...

but how is the shameless plug of this not just therefore off-topic but diametrically-opposed-to-total-personal-privacy tool appropriate here?

Is funny because this totally offline and locally hosted search engine in DownloadNet is potentially the most private of all.

I get if you’re not interested, but I imagine people interested in locally hosted search-related solutions, may be.

Your view is probably more personal and hard to support in general given this, and given the comment’s position and votes indicating at least some people are interested.

I totally understand why you wouldn’t want your browsing history archived anywhere. But that is what search engines do somewhat. It’s okay, everyone’s different.

none of that (most includingly comment position and votes) = privacy.

this tool is not relevant here.

> none of that = privacy

> this tool is not relevant here

No it’s relevant. You don’t think self hosted and offline is private?

i self-host my human brain online in my own skull. i feed it and nurture it so that it can continue to perform and offer me the highest level of privacy i could possibly maintain.

mental privacy, huh, nickburns? That’s an interesting concept.

there is no man in the desert. And no man needs nothing.

Tho I prefer the west coast of Zaire or Suid-Afrika myself.

  mental privacy, huh, nickburns? That’s an interesting concept.

you made your plug under the guise of asking if anyone had interest, i offered mine, and now i think we're done here, keepamovin.

Seemed so

before you go... i apologize for being a dick about it. i'd have to really reflect some more on why it felt necessary to go about it in this way, which is inevitably a deeply personal reflection.

but if i may just say, privacy as a concept for a truly egalitarian society is something very near and critical in my opinion. marketing, on the other hand, is not.

good day to you, sir.

The entire field of Information Technology exists because the world disagrees that the thing in your skull has an acceptable level of intellectual and recall performance. And here we are on a social site dedicated to the pursuit of making it better. And so are you!

One of us, apparently.

How is this better than YaCy?

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