Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by kazinator on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:05AM
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> Right, the browsers will quickly ban this extension.
How is an open source browser going to ban an extension that throngs of people want?
Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by comntr on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:20PM
(#20310626)
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.
Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
by closeparen on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:30PM
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It means a user can comment out the parts they don’t like and publish their fork for like minded users to switch to.
However I think that this hypothetical scenario will never happen because the idea will never reach this wide adoption. It'll inevitably be fragmented into a few segments with rules and moderation. Want comments from the theoretical physicist community? Subscribe to sci.data.org in your extension config. Want to know what 4chan folks think? Add unfiltered.comments.com to your config - it'll be an unreadable mess anyway and you'll need to make some non-trivial effort to add that url.
But I think there will be an archive with all the comments for research purposes: physically, it will be a big data server that keeps connections with all other data servers and pulls all the comments it can.