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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL by nstart on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:12AM (#20292846)
Appreciate the thought behind using the hashed URL to avoid leaking PII. That does make comments difficult too though because of refs being inserted by various social platforms. Not sure how one would handle that though
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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL by fiddlerwoaroof on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:00AM (#20293039)
Some sites use a link with real=canonical to indicate the canonical url. Maybe this could use that (when present), instead of the tab url?
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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL by comntr on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:58AM (#20302847)
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 computes SHA1 and gets comments by that hash from the data server.
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