Not only there are multiple plugins that do this now, this is something that was explored by Google itself back in 2009 with Google Sidewiki[1].
Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
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Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#12What's old is new again. NCSA Mosaic's Group Annotations:
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/www/Mosa...
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#13The Google Toolbar project had a feature called "sidewiki" that did the same thing. https://searchengineland.com/google-sidewiki-allows-anyone-t...
It got dropped in 2011, sayeth Wikipedia; criticism included that it pulled control of comments away from a site publisher and gave that content (and data) to Google.
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#14Why does the link point to a Google redirect to CNET? It this on purpose for attribution purposes?
I'm guessing someone copied the link from Google results.
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#15Remember Pushnote[0], wasn't that basically the same thing? It's definitely an interesting concept and there's a market there but not when it's a 'Nazi' site backing it. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/fry_pushnote_bye/
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent."
~ Lord Aquitainus Attis
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#16Why does the link point to a Google redirect to CNET? It this on purpose for attribution purposes?
Someone right-clicked a link from a Google search results page.
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#17The Google Toolbar project had a feature called "sidewiki" that did the same thing. https://searchengineland.com/google-sidewiki-allows-anyone-t... It got dropped in 2011, sayeth Wikipedia; criticism included that it pulled control of comments away from a site publisher and gave that content (and data) to Google.
If it was dropped in 2011, I suspect the criticism also included the fact that every site in the world starting having their own comments section, rendering the thing kind of pointless.
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#18Remember Pushnote[0], wasn't that basically the same thing? It's definitely an interesting concept and there's a market there but not when it's a 'Nazi' site backing it. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/fry_pushnote_bye/
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent." ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis
It is entirely appropriate to attack literal self-claimed Nazis.
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#19Direct URL to this story is https://www.cnet.com/news/gab-wants-to-add-a-comment-section... .
The use of the google.com domain in the post can be somewhat misleading...
Re: Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page
#20Remember Pushnote[0], wasn't that basically the same thing? It's definitely an interesting concept and there's a market there but not when it's a 'Nazi' site backing it. [0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/fry_pushnote_bye/
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent." ~ Lord Aquitainus Attis
It's not an ad hominem to note past history of a group that will be moderating a public forum when they have a demonstrable poor track record of moderating public fora.
Unless something changes relative to the user ecosystem Gab has attracted in the past, I predict I'll be blackholing their domains on every machine I personally administer because nobody in my family needs to be exposed to that nonsense.