Ask HN: Browser Plugin that filters low quality web pages
Is there a web service which lets you install a plugin that filters "legal" but low quality sites?
Let's say I'm surfing the web, I click on a link in some blog. The link directs me to a low quality web site. By low quality, I mean people (who also have the plugin) have visited that page before I did, and left under 5 seconds or so. Instead of redirecting to the linked page a warning appears and tells me if I really want to visit that page as it seems to have a low quality rating (high bounce rate).
The bounce rates of different web pages are then analyzed and user clients will frequently get updated with webpage quality filter list.
TL;DR: A plugin which is like Xmarks but indexes the pages you (and others) don't like and lets you know if you're about to visit one.
Anyone would care to use a plugin like this?
2 comments
[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 13.5 ms ] threadA high bounce rate does not mean low-quality by itself. You'd definitely need to wrap some other indicators in there too. I think that would naturally become clearer by itself as you developed is.
I have no need for such a service. Then again, I said that about Twitter too...