edit: The extension bow allows you to see Lemmy comments on any website on the web! As long as there is a Lemmy thread with the same URL as the website one you’re on when you click the extension a popup will appear displaying Lemmy threads and comments which you can vote and reply to!
cross-posted from: https://merv.news/post/644180
A couple weeks ago I reached out to the dev that makes the Reddit Comments for Youtube extension and asked him to enable support for Lemmy. The developer was already rewriting the extension and decided to implement Lemmy support as well! Here’s the GitHub and FireFox links. It also available for Chrome iirc.
The comments appear after you select an instance in the extension’s menu on any youtube video that has been posted to any Lemmy instance with a full url without a timecode. Invidious links and Lemmy comments on invidious instances still aren’t supported but since its supported by the Reddit comments it should be possible if someone submits a PR.
So Google can now track me on Lemmy? No thx.
Is there a way they can track through this? It’s not provided by Google but from a third party browser extension
That’s literally impossible… How do you think Google would track you like that.
Granting permissions on crossposting allows tracking.
Are you under the impression that you’re commenting with your Google account or something? That’s not what’s happening at all.
Any comment on a Google platform reqs a login or identifier.
What’s being proposed is that the extension would modify the page to add a Lemmy frame for commenting. This frame is autonomous in the sense the user must provide his Lemmy login information for it to work, which is different from Google login information. Google is not even aware the page is being modified by an external comment section, and even if it could detect it, it wouldn’t be able to track individual users.
You’re not commenting on Google, but on Lemmy
There’s no connection to Google whatsoever. You are commenting on Lemmy with your Lemmy account. Google has no way to control or track you.
“If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”
When someone says their life is an open book, it could mean an open check book.