| Hi! I'm Martijn, maker of History Search. So its simple; It does track you; thats the point. However, you control what History Search does and where it's active. Any data you capture using History Search can easily be deleted and is available for export to csv, for you to do with as you please. Besides that History Search can also easily be paused, or webpages can be blacklisted. We also have a very clear policy about privacy and security: it is yours, we also comply with GDPR regulations. If you're interested you can read more about these on historysearch.com/security or historysearch.com/privacy My goal is to turn History Search into a filesystem for the web. Anyone can use it for free and index/search 3000 pages, most recent. Pages out of the limit are archived until you upgrade or remove some pages. We believe the future of internet is trust, and reward: if people like our services they simply pay us—no ads no selling of personal data—if no one pays we will no longer be able to improve; this is in my opinion a healthy internet. What History Search does is revolutionary. Since it will be increasingly difficult to do all the things we do online without a backbone that makes it possible to retrieve webpages you've been, using any words you remember on it. This help you find back articles or gmails, open documents or quickly navigate web services. Can you imagine having to remember all the hidden files on your computer or the places in memory your files reside? Well this is what it's like working online (more or less, a bit less extreme though haha) How it works is, History Search uses browser extensions to index the text on webpages when you visit them. This way any word you remember will be enough to retrieve it for you. So its both technically and literally an index (you know those pages in the back of those dusty encyclopaedias). History Search is a product I'm very passionate about, and have spent the past 3,5 years working on. The vision is even bigger: an entirely new way of working with decentralised information sources — in a way they are still connected. The future of History Search is Convergate: Convergence Gateway. The names speaks for its self. We value trust, and utility over anything. Companies that need to be free aren't any good. Have you ever wondered so every successful service which is "free", is also a waste of time (companies like Wikipedia aren't in this categorie since they receive donations). Long story short, History Search is a cloud storage so yes your data is stored on our (well Amazon's) servers. But our system is solid, and we do everything we can to make sure our user's privacy is respected. I launched it this week on Product Hunt if you want to see some more info: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/history-search
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