It's not a substitute for FreeRepublic --for me NOTHING will ever do that.
The Dissenter browser extension basically permits you to comment on websites that do not permit reader comments, or permits public commenting for those sites that previously permitted that but have discontinued the feature.
My understanding is that even YouTube is now seriously considering discontinuing all comments.
Because of all the deplatforming and shadow-banning I would also admonish Freepers to consider Gab.ai as a Twitter substitute, since a couple days of filtering will get you about the same level of craziness as FR (tolerable).
I got banned from twatter for insulting liberals. I got banned from Gab for insulting Nazis. It’s hard to tell which of them are worse.
Simply brilliant
The ability to comment about a website, but outside that site’s sphere of control.
I expect this will make a lot of site owners nervous, particularly some of the big dogs that like to control the narrative, not just within their site, but about them.
I’d also expect legal challenges. I can’t think of what grounds, but I’m sure they’ll come up with something.
I also predict exploitation.
I hope they gab/dissenter stays on top of how their product is being used. Look for people to program bots, and look for more organic (but still artificial) formation of groups that raid comment areas in order to influence perception about sites.
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I would give it some time to see how it pans out, but a “side bet” that these tech giants can’t control might not be a bad idea. They are going to probably start to “detect” whether you have it or not and deny access to the sites, but if it catches on and becomes popular they would have to deny access to most of or maybe even all of their own customers. This would then become counter productive for them to do.
Many years ago, I took a stab at reading YouTube comments, and was astonished at the level of abject stupidity. I kept sampling some for a period of time, and concluded that is the state of affairs there, and that people deliberately go out of their way to vie for the most inane and idiotic post in the comment section.
I found reading those comments to be utterly discouraging and corrosive to my view of people in general. I have often wondered if that feeling was akin to those developed by police who have to deal with the seamy side of humanity each and every day.
For me, comments on YouTube are the measuring stick about what is bad about allowing people unfettered outlet for their thoughts.
Ping.
This is brilliant idea. Got home from work (couldn’t install it due to firewall/proxy at work) and loaded it up. Flat out a great extension..
Neat idea. I installed on one browser and made comments at CNN articles, Drudge links, even at the front page of drudge, and in One America News articles.