Curious: what are the legal considerations of "decorator" proxies like 's via.hypothes.is, which redistributes content from a target URL with an extra JS include for annotation?
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Is this meaningfully different from people deciding to install a browser extension or apply some other tool to the website?
I imagine the "content of the action/what your service is doing" would matter more here vs the mechanics
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I can imagine it might be interpreted differently legally, since I can pass around a proxy URL to anyone, and then it'll "just work" transparently, without the user "opting-in" to some transformation.
The mechanics in my prototype are similar to those of Hypothes.is.