I love this idea, was thinking about how nice something like this would be myself. Sad it'll get no chance because of people going "muh nazis", even though it will work with any URL. It appears theres this assumption that it will be used for politics related stuff which i have no concern with myself. No neonazis will be gathering on the URLs that are meaningful to me and id say most people. Read.write.as blogs/posts have no way to leave comments and feedback, so something like this would be cool. If i wrote blogs there, id like to see feedback and supportive comments if possible. And since its an external function from the site itself, i can either grow a skin or uninstall the addon. It just works.
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Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#32How do you keep all the toxic and evil comments out?
How do you give website owners a way to opt out?
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#34https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/browsercast/pieobl...
I have a same idea and I made it
But is is dead now
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#35The only way this can be useful is if everybody has it. Not having it available on Chrome is not a great start.
you can install the addon on chrome manually
> The extension works in Chrome too, but it's not published to the Chrome Web Store. Why? Publishing any extension there now requires (1) a phone number, to create a gmail account and (2) a credit card, supposedly to deter spammers. However the extension can be installed manually.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, also while they can not be censored by the administrator of the website, they can still be censored (or moderated) by the Plugin Owner, right?
Yeah, perhaps a better solution would be for the comments to be stored in something like ipfs? Though if i understand ipfs right, it works like torrents, meaning that unpopular comments will disappear over time.
This is the thing that I was thinking about. That a blockchain-like solution would better fit the goal of the extension. And I don't think this because I worry about censorship or free speech. I think the main benefit of this extension is that it creates an option to comment on sites where to creator of the site didn't make commenting possible.
However I do worry about moderation and trolls. Allowing people to make as much noise as they can is almost as damaging to free speech as censorship. I'm not really familiar with IPFS, what does it mean that unpopular comments disappear? Is it like seeding the only torrent (comments) that you like?
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#37From the Firefox add-on page: > Many websites don't allow user comments, or disable comments after a certain period of time. comntr bypasses these Orwellian restrictions by allowing anyone to leave a comment on any website, as well as read comments left by others. Furthermore, your comments cannot be censored by the website administrator. I like the concept of the add-on, but calling moderation of your comment sectio…
Puzzling that after 20 years of internet stupidism, people still think unrestricted user content could somehow be a good idea.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the 90's there was a Windows program that offered the same functionality, called uTOK: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html . IIRC it acted as a HTTP proxy to see which URLs you were fetching. Ah, the good old days where neo-nazis weren't everywhere online...
If you see neo-nazis EVERYWHERE it might just be about you EDIT: From downvotes (without any arguments) I can only guess that there are sizable amount of people who don't know what the word nazi means.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#39From the Firefox add-on page: > Many websites don't allow user comments, or disable comments after a certain period of time. comntr bypasses these Orwellian restrictions by allowing anyone to leave a comment on any website, as well as read comments left by others. Furthermore, your comments cannot be censored by the website administrator. I like the concept of the add-on, but calling moderation of your comment sectio…
Agreed, also while they can not be censored by the administrator of the website, they can still be censored (or moderated) by the Plugin Owner, right?
If this got popular, and an administrator wanted to disable comments, one thing that they could do is add a unique random prefix to every request to a URL. The web server would just generate a random prefix for each link it produces, and strip the random prefix from the path in every request it receives.
For example, HN's front page contains a set of URLs for each item. This item would be https://news.ycombinator.com/b149012c-56f4-4859-82b8-1f3f83e... for one request, and https://news.ycombinator.com/73e78d90-cc25-4091-8ffa-94783a2... for the next request. Both requests would get mapped to the same page, and serve up the same content (except with another uuid inserted into links).
Every comment would go into a unique SHA1 bucket and never seen again.
Re: Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
#40From the Firefox add-on page: > Many websites don't allow user comments, or disable comments after a certain period of time. comntr bypasses these Orwellian restrictions by allowing anyone to leave a comment on any website, as well as read comments left by others. Furthermore, your comments cannot be censored by the website administrator. I like the concept of the add-on, but calling moderation of your comment sectio…
Puzzling that after 20 years of internet stupidism, people still think unrestricted user content could somehow be a good idea.
Some people just want to be able to say what is legally allowed. That ability is attacked again and again. You don't have to want that freedom yourself, but imposing that restriction on others can be criticized.