It's a simple extension that can add comments to SHA1 of the current tab URL. Comments are stored on a $5/mo VPS in the /<sha1(url)>/<sha1(comment)=text form. See https://github.com/comntr/webext/. I I thought it would be cool to have reddit-like discussions for any URL, so here we go. For now the extension is available only on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/comntr/. The reason I haven't published its Chrome version is that the Chrome Web Store now requires a phone number and a credit card, which is the same thing as asking for ID. The extension can be installed manually, though: this is how I test it. P.S. I know that giving a random extension access to tab URLs is a questionable idea, but unfortunately I can't write in manifest.json that the extension only needs SHA1 of the URL. And you can always compute the SHA1 yourself and use https://comntr.github.io#<sha1> :)
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