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VCU – See and chat with all users browsing the same website at the same time

Solid endorsement from the site: "Very creepy and uncomfortable but so cool and interesting!" Martina (User #18)

3 days agoChihuahua0633

"It is what it is" ;)

3 days agoNiklaz

Tried this for about 10 mins and then figured out that it was publishing my browser history on the VCU site. So pretty much done with that for now.

2 days agoAstroJetson

where did you find that?

2 days agobig-chungus4

Lovely concept. Just gotta wait until its released for Firefox.

3 days agoderelicta

Thank you so much! Yes I'm working on it ;)

3 days agoNiklaz
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3 days ago

I think about how cool something like this would be, pretty frequently. Hopefully, you have plans on porting the add-on to Safari.

2 days agowyre

Very cool

3 days agolykkeT

Thanks!

3 days agoNiklaz

Welcome to 1997.... Literally

2 days agosn0n

The program to do this back then was called uTOK. I think it acted as a local HTTP (who needs the S ;-) ) proxy and would intercept requests and inject its HTML so you have a hovering DIV on the page with people's comments. I remember seeing people comment on CNN news articles.

Ah, imagine the toxicity if that's around nowadays.

Edit: ah it had its own window:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160801064255/https://alumni.me...