Role of page owners I plan to check in on what's going on with efforts at Hypothes.is to involve owners in page annotations: In the past months we launched a small research initiative to gather different points of view about website publishers and authors consent to annotation. Our goal was to identify different paths forward taking into account the perspectives of publishers, engineers, developers and people working on abuse and harassment issues. We have published a first summary of our discussion on our blog post about involving page owners in annotation. I was reminded of these efforts after reading that Audrey Watters had blocked annotation services like hypothes.is and genius from her domains: Un-Annotated Episode 52: Marginalia In the spirit of communal conversation, I threw in my two cents: Have there been any serious exploration of easy opt-out mechanisms for domain owners? Something like robots.txt for annotation tools?
Role of page owners