Ask HN: Browser gently warns you b4 reading something you regret spending time

This is definitely an interesting idea.

If you can build it (and that's a big if), then it will almost certainly have a market, since it is solving a very specific problem that a lot of people have and want to solve. The biggest question is, can you build something that works well?

I like the idea of relying on HN comments to try and decide whether the article is worth reading, and I can see the potential for adding more and more "opinion" sites later on to cover more articles on the web. I'm not convinced that it will actually help, but it should be possible to build this just for HN and see whether it helps or not.

In any case, great idea. I really hope you make this work!

Correction: I realized that I might not be conveying it right.

Product is not yet another way to discover interesting things to read.

The moment you visit a URL, just as you are about to read it, the browser tells you that "hey, before you read this, this might actually be a waste of your time."

Rather than other peoples' opinions, I'd rather have a summary of the article. Most places I go, there either isn't a summary, or it's really, really bad. (Either incomplete or incorrect.)

But that would require a person, and not just automation.