would it be possible to gdrive/rsync/git the data between machines and then use the data on an online server for retrieval (given that I would handle data sync myself)?

also what exactly are you using for search? does it support trigrams? how do you sort results?

I found Hister a few month ago and was amazed by it.

Now for many of us the browser extension approach is not possible (mobile usage, security, etc.)

My feeling is for a lot of users there is really a third way apart from the MiTM proxy or Browser extension approach. I actually do not want my "personal" / "logged in" pages to be indexed. This is a bit like the MS recall nightmare (self hosted version).

Any way to get the list of URL visited (with something like Privoxy, or maybe one of those popular ad blockers like Pi Hole but I guess they just get DNS queries?) and then importing it with some filtering rules with a nightly batch job is good enough for a lot of people.

The browser import [1] is great but I guess hard to use with mobile...

- [0] https://www.privoxy.org/

- [1] https://hister.org/docs/importing-browser-history