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A proxy server running on the user's machine? It gets to see everywhere the user goes. A Javascript or plugin can communicate with the proxy for better browse
by ralph 19y ago
A proxy server running on the user's machine? It gets to see everywhere the user goes. A Javascript or plugin can communicate with the proxy for better browser integration.
- akkartik 19y agoHmm, I'll think about this one. Proxies are so far complex to install, perhaps this can be streamlined. I end up backing up an ever-growing scrapbook archive out of my PC every month. Perhaps most people don't care about backups. With hard disk capacities growing as they are, 100MB/month compressed may be a reasonable rate of disk usage.
- ralph 19y agoBe like Google and don't cache rich media in the proxy, just text/html, etc. An upstream proxy can be a full caching one, e.g. like Squid, perhaps the one at their ISP.
- akkartik 19y ago100MB/mo compressed is just the text/html.
- staunch 19y agoPerhaps you could only track specific sites? My digg/reddit/slashdot/blog traffic is already quite public, so thats the kind of stuff I wouldn't worry about. I'm not totally sure if that kind of approach would limit you too much. I'm thinking something like the way ad blocking software has large lists of ad servers, etc.
- akkartik 19y agoYeah, the FAQ answer sort of hinted at this: "You will soon be able to control in the firefox extension what pages we are aware of." http://hystry.com/faq.html http://hystry.com/faq.html I visualize it as allowing either a whitelist of sites to send out or a blacklist of sites to avoid sending out. I'll bump this idea up my todo list.