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I was thinking exactly this when I stumbled upon your comment, except I figured it should work for any private tab and it'd also need a browser that makes tabs private (and contained) by default.

It's a solution more easily solved by vc companies or government laws, because we're not seeing Google doing that in this lifetime, while FOSS solutions simply won't get the needed traction.




What happens when these self-hosted crawlers access illegal content in one's country?


The same thing that happens when a peer accesses an illegal torrent on his country? How is this relevant? It is a decentralized system, it shouldn't make a difference.


"Honstly officer. I didn't click on that link to CA imagery. It was my webcrawler."




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