Private history filter

Now that I frequently use LLMs as search engines, the prompts I use appear in the URLs in my search history, and those can show up as suggestions in Vimium's Vomnibar. I'd like to keep those history items private in case I'm projecting my screen or working at my computer with someone.

This could be accomplished in Vimium by adding the ability to configure a list of patterns to remove from the history suggestions that Vomnibar will surface.

However, those filtered history URLs will still be shown in Chrome's Omnibox if the user happens to be using that. The only way to remove suggestions appearing in the Omnibox is to delete those URLs from history.

At that point, I realized that this is a more general problem than just for Vimium users.

So I made a separate extension here which deletes matching URLs from one's history as soon as they're visited. This keeps them from appearing in both the Vomnibar and Chrome's Omnibox.

I wanted to surface this to Vimium users for comments. Before I circulate this extension more widely, is the separate extension a good solution to this problem? Is anyone using a different approach?

Start with the separate private-history-filter extension linked in the issue; no Vimium files, tests, or entry points are identified. Decide whether history filtering belongs in Vimium or should remain a separate extension, then define concrete implementation and completion criteria before coding.