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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL by kazinator on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:05AM (#20301875)
> Right, the browsers will quickly ban this extension.

How is an open source browser going to ban an extension that throngs of people want?

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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.
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Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL by closeparen on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:30PM (#20318982)
It means a user can comment out the parts they don’t like and publish their fork for like minded users to switch to.
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