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by convergate 2818 days ago
Haha, that last paragraph made me laugh. I sincerely appreciate candid feedback, and fully agree there shouldn’t be any confusion regarding pricing. I’m going to look into this asap.

I do think I realize where the confusion is coming from; you are seeing the pricing page from mobile? You mentioned being able to search the things from mobile, this sadly isn’t possible yet. Mobile browser extensions are only slowly evolving (but we’re on it), so for now History Search is desktop only.

Will look into the examples you provided, thank you, and see how we can use it to make History Search better.

History Search is not intended for sale. Like I said it’s just our first step, plus I don’t believe in our current leaders - Apple aside, I’m impressed by practically everything they do. Also users have complete control over what History Search indexes and stores. So if a sale would ever happen you can always export and remove any or all data in History Search-but again a sale isn’t the goal, we aren’t even funded at moment (well, self funded). Ontop of our intentions and perspective of what the web should be, privacy regulations are finally getting better, this gives companies who choose a straightforward business approach a chance. A better paid Facebook wouldn’t have stood a chance 10 years ago. Luckily this is changing.

There are over 3 billion internet users. 500 million would be able to benefit from and can afford History Search. Reaching these numbers is our goal.

I didn’t go into everything you mentioned in this message, but it’s all noted and I would like to thank you for the kind words and your time to help us improve.

Kind regards, Martijn