Better Way to Communicate Displeasure to Website Owner

cretz commented 5 years ago

Right now there are many reasons why we leave sites or never visit websites in the first place
Often we would love to tell websites why and they would love to know why, so since both parties might want this information we should provide a way to make it easy
I suggest a new way to give this info, via a request of the website via HEAD method and a header with a simple reasoning (e.g. header DispleasureReason: Scrolling broken)
- Could consider a GET instead if we're in the context of the browser so they can still gather their cookies and get the referrer, unsure how browsers do HEAD requests from extensions or whatever
By using a request, the website can employ whatever server side analytics it wants to know who was unhappy or at least confirm they are real and not flooded with fake
Also can be a reason to have never visited in the first place. For instance, say you hated AMP sites, you can use a browser extension to right-click and say "not visiting because I'm boycotting AMP" and it'll fire off the request in the background while you continue to browse
Same thing can happen on intrusive ads. Now, whether the ad network will pass along to the ad buyer the displeasure headers coming to their ad-redirect proxy is a different story
As for the browser extension, has a right-click-on-link menu with common/most-recently-used reasons and ability to add your own
Also on back button or tab close, there is a little part of the extension that you can say why you just did that action

samsquire commented 4 years ago

There has been numerous attempts at providing comments on arbitrary web pages but most of the ones I had heard about have been discontinued. See this search: "leave a comment on any website"
Maybe this could be implemented as right clicking on the back button or right clicking the close tab button, to get a comment field.

khalilsarwari commented 1 year ago

https://www.netvyne.com/ allows you to leave a comment on any page (open-source too)!

This is one of the many use-cases for this extension; ideally there would be some discussion that is not necessarily just complaints haha!

Only issue is getting enough traction for it to become common place/recognized as a source of feedback - any suggestions on this would be much appreciated

[disclaimer: Netvyne founder :)]

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