Linkgraphs Are Fun
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The post 'Linkgraphs are fun' shares the author's enthusiasm for linkgraphs, sparking a discussion on the challenges of building a 'Comment on anything' feature and related privacy concerns.
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So I gave up because I didn't want to write an extension.
Even if you get it working, I'm not clear how you maintain privacy - Loading the whole index from remote is private but expensive. Passing every URL you load to the service is cheap but terrible on privacy.
There are middle grounds like "first 4 letters of a SHA384 of the URL" or bloom filters, but I only skimmed the article and didn't notice which one they're using.
How it works is the last section of the blog post.