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Ask YC: Feedback on my site No-NSFW, The Not-Safe-For-Work Warning System.
No-NSFW is a Firefox extension which warns you if the link that you clicked on is NSFW. NSFW ratings are determined by user-votes cast via the extension.
The extension could be rough around the edges - would appreciate any feedback / bug reports.
- Caligula 19y agoI would of went for NOTnsfw.com It is still available. http://www.whois.net/dnr/index.php?d=notnsfw&tld=com http://www.whois.net/dnr/index.php?d=notnsfw&tld=com
- antiismist 19y agoI think the double-negative is slightly confusing. My favorite available one is: safeftw.com: "safe for the work" OR "safe for the win"
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- kirubakaran 19y agoSince you are rewriting all external links on web pages to go through your website, I am exposing my browsing habits to you, right?
- ptm 19y agoYes, but you could disable it when you don't mind seeing NSFW content.
- ten-seven 19y agoStill, this is a deal killer.
- ptm 19y agoI understand this would raise red flags for a yc type crowd. Would the average surfer feel as strongly ?
- wanorris 19y agoIf the site contained a strong privacy guarantee on the front page -- basically, no data about individuals' surfing habits will be stored, but aggregate data about overall traffic will be stored unless you opt out -- I would use it if I needed it.
- Husafan 19y agoWhy do you need to rewrite links to your server? Can your extension not insert JavaScript to do most of this logic client-side?
- ptm 19y agoActually it uses Javascript to rewrite links. But the info about links being safe of not are contained in the server links. I could pre-emptively get info about all links, but that would slow down Firefox.
- Husafan 19y agoGotcha. Well maybe you could do this asynchronously, after page load? Once the page is done loading, extension fires off for info about links on the page? Assuming this didn't take to long, it might be doable before they clicked a new link. Also, extensions have access to cookies per domain? Maybe the extension could use this to cache results for a given page client-side?
- ptm 19y agoI could do that. I had decided against it earlier due to the potential lag.
- marrone 19y agoTraversing the entire DOM on page load and rewriting all links for large pages would also slow down the page though. Also rewriting links seems too intrusive for my tastes and means I cant "Copy link location" which I frequently do. I like the idea, but I personally would have just used a single "click" event handler on the entire page using the capturing phase and hijack links to redirect through your site first, rather than doing a rewrite for every link in the dom
- nanijoe 19y ago..Which in turn means this should be a feature of a plugin like 8aweek, or maybe 8aweek could be a feature of this plugin :)
- aggieben 19y agoThis is the crucial thing: Unrated links default to Safe-For-Work. The extension becomes useless if the ratings don't keep up with content (in other words, if some dude posts a nudie picture of his girlfriend, it's got to be rated before I get to it or your extension doesn't help me).
- ptm 19y agoI could change that, but won't it would get too annoying (for a fresh data-set) ?
- Husafan 19y agoSeems like this should be settable. If I want to be uber-cautious, not rated should default to NSFW. Also, maybe a white/black list of domains the user knows to be safe/unsafe for themselves?
- aggieben 19y agoThat's really my point though: it's not being über-cautious to default to NSFW, because the point is to not get fired for accidentally clicking on a landmine. If you can't give some sense of confidence that the tool will prevent that scenario, then it's usefulness is limited.
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- ptm 19y agoDid anyone actually install the plugin :) ? I would appreciate any bug reports / feedback.
- kirubakaran 19y agoInstead of rewriting the links, can you asynchronously (without holding up the browser) check all the external links after the page loads and mark all the nsfw links in red or something like that? This way, privacy concerns can be addressed to a certain extent (if you can also don't store the current url that I am on). [edit:oops, just noticed that Husafan comment says pretty much the same thing.]
- ptm 19y agoI could do that.
- kirubakaran 19y agoor may be offer both? People who want speed but aren't concerned about privacy can use the current set up. May be this can be a monetization idea too... the more private path = $5 per month "a small insurance against getting fired"
- ptm 19y agoWon't that choice become too technical ? And is it acceptable to charge for privacy ?
- kirubakaran 19y agoWell, you have to put it in a different way :-) IMHO you have to offer the more private option (regardless of your monetization plan) just to get the early adopters who usually are geekier than the masses and hence care about privacy.
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- rksprst 19y agoJust tried whitehouse.com and it said it's safe for work. i couldn't figure out how to vote on the site (without using the plugin).
- ptm 19y agoFor now you can only vote via the extension. And the site is pretty much empty, so all sites default to safe.
- kirubakaran 19y agoYou can screen scrape nsfw.reddit
- andr 19y agoIs that really an issue? I've stumbled across NSFW sites when I had day jobs and nobody minded. People actually found it kinda funny.
- inklesspen 19y agohttp://corknut.org/worksafer/ http://corknut.org/worksafer/ dates back to 2005.