[eah13]

I could see posthaven turning into an API that any site could integrate with so that users knew their data was safe. Depending on the site and type of user data, this type of exportability/backupability could be a real differentiating feature.

[themgt]

Any site wanting to position itself as a backbone of the open & safe net ought to itself be open source and have support for data import/export into a self-hosted installation.

[eah13]

Agreed. Like Diaspora for data? :)

[tlrobinson]

Idea: a browser extension that automatically scrapes and archives your data as you browse a site. Power-users can submit scrapers for new/modified sites.

Normally scrapers can be detected and blocked, but if it's passively running in the background on a user's machine, opportunistically grabbing data the user is already viewing, it should be impossible to detect.

[garry]

This is a great idea. I've actually wanted to do this before. Browser plugins are one fundamental tool in the war against web tyranny. For instance, crawling Craigslist could be accomplished this way in a way that was unblockable.

This needs to exist.

[Terretta]

Related: Consider http://Pinboard.in with the yearly plan offering Personal Archiving. Anything pinned (bookmarked) gets archived and you can view it from your personal archive.

[toomuchtodo]

Running as an extension has been done before (SEE: PACER Recap Extension: https://www.recapthelaw.org/)

[eah13]

I dig it. Store this data in the cloud and call it ViewHaven. An automatic and complete record of everything you've seen on the web.