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Show HN: A chrome extension to know if the page you visit has comments here
- slg 11y agoI wonder if there is any way to cache this data. As it stands, every web page the user browses to results in a hit to HN's search. That is the deciding factor in me not using this extension. First, there is just the common courtesy of not repeatedly hitting hn.algolia.com and costing Y Combinator money. But there is also the more selfish concern about algolia and Y Combinator having a complete picture of my browsing history.
- nepsilon 11y agoThese are 2 valid concerns. Using localStorage to cache the URL already looked up would help for the pages you visit the most (gmail.com, twitter, etc). Having a whitelist/blacklist of site {not,} to lookup might also help. Let me know if you think these 2 features would actually help. I could implement them. Thanks for your comment!
- slg 11y agoThose would be a start. Although maybe a better possibility is to add an option to switch the extension from always checking to only check when a user hits the page action button. That would certainly earn my install.