privacy

Google keeps your search history indefinitely unless you change it. Learn exactly where it's stored, how to check what Google has on you, how auto-delete works, and what a local-first alternative looks like.

A founder story about losing the perfect page, wasting 40 minutes in Chrome History, and building a local-first way to search your browsing history by meaning. No cloud, no account, no data sharing.

Free browser extensions often monetize through data collection, affiliate injection, or quiet ownership changes. Here's how to spot the business model before you install.

Chrome deletes local browsing history after roughly 90 days. Here's exactly how long your history lasts, why it disappears, and the best ways to extend retention beyond Chrome's built-in limits.

On-device AI keeps your browser history on your machine. Cloud-based tools upload it to servers. Here's what that difference means for your privacy.

A technical breakdown of how on-device AI works inside browser extensions: WebGPU, WASM, embedding models, and why running inference locally beats sending data to the cloud.

The TraceMind blog covers browser privacy, semantic search, local-first AI, and productivity for people who spend their days in a browser and want their history to actually be useful.