Comment on Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
Clbull@lemmy.world 2 months agoGab tried to pull the same thing with their Dissenter plugin. It was such a bad idea that Mozilla and Google banded together to remove the extensions from their stores for ToS violations.
Now imagine what a nightmare it would be to moderate the ability to comment on anything online with actual standards and decency.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why was it a bad idea? Seems like a wonderful idea. Minus Gab.
Some kind of web of trust and inheriting ignored users based on it and weights - and it will work.
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Sounds to me like an extension that by design tracks every Web page you visit.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not necessarily and only those you comment.
That’s the point, to comment any webpage. It’s clear you visited it if you comment it.
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Presumably it loads comments when you visit a page. That would send a request with the URL to whatever service they’re running.