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That's what I'm trying to test. Last time I've got 800 mostly meaningless comments. The idea is to stop numerous zergs: you can't ban them one by one, but a little bump on their wa…

The captcha is basically a question to add two 2-digit numbers, e.g. 23+45. The question is returned as an SVG picture. The hypothesis is that the need to engage brain even for 3 s…

And just rendering to canvas may be very tricky if the captcha is animated with css, i.e. it moves a bit and different parts of it appear at different times.

The catch is that the text will be represented as small geometric svg shapes, so the spammer will need to first render the svg to png and then run text recognition tools. But in th…

That's true when we talk about 10M monthly pageviews, but I doubt that this little extension will reach such popularity levels. If this somehow happens, by that time there will be …

Yes, this is how it works: comntr.github.io# http://foobar.com/

I think, "comntr" is more like "integrated 3rd party" that can be run like a self hosted solution.

Can you elaborate on those one word answer questions?

That's right, I haven't. The puzzle will be sent as an SVG, obviously. Em.. "off-the-shelf OCR" sounds neat, but anyone who knows such words isn't an average spammer. The goal of b…

Done: https://github.com/comntr/comntr.github.io/commit/af35

You can git clone and launch your web client too.

Or rather time-delay moderation, as it's easier to implement. Comments are added to the server as usual, but the web client shows them only after 1 hour.

I think most of the spammers can be deterred by a simple puzzle, like 23+47. If we want to raise the bar, we make the puzzle more and more complex. Obviously, the puzzle is returne…

That's right. My first attempt was to use IPFS or DAT. Figured out it's not quite possible, but we can get very close to that, in theory. Imagine the extension or the iframe could …

Yea, I missed the obvious one!

Also, it's already possible to have your own comntr server: you just need to git clone the comntr/http-server repo, npm install & npm start it, and tell the iframe to use your serv…

My first post about the web extension idea got some interest (and almost 150 stars on github!), so I've made the next logical step: an that renders the comntr.github.io page and ef…

Easily. Open source merely means that the source can be seen by anyone. It doesn't mean that readers of the source have any say in how to run the browser.

I'd expect some ML stuff, like training some models, etc. Such comments in raw form hardly have much value. What adtech usually pays for is data pinned to user ids.

Comments can be seen like this: https://comntr.github.io#http://contoso.com/ The trick is that the #... part of the URL isn't sent to the server. This request downloads JS which co…

The space of possible reasonable URLs is way too big to brute force. If your point is that someone can just grab the set of existing HN URLs and get their heashes, then I don't see…

Looking at comments for example.com, I understand why they want human moderators.

But if you click on it, it will have access to all your data? There is no in between: either no access until you click or full access when you click. This can be done already: java…