Userscript to always show LW comments in context vs at the top

When you use a browser you're putting an enormous amount of trust in it's manufacturer to get security right, and I don't have that level of trust for most vendors.

[-]Vlad Sitalo2y10

That's fair. I believe kiwi is a fork of chrome that is kept up to date with a set of patches applied on top fwiw.

[-]jefftk2y20

How up to date? Chrome security patches are very often followed by reverse engineering and exploitation, so you need to be very prompt.

(Yes, this means I don't trust any browsers except Chrome, Firefox, Safari)

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The out of context top-level display of comments when I navigate to them always bothered me, but up until recently I haven't realized there is a way to go to the actual comment via a simple URL change.

From https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>/?commentId=<commentid>
To https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/<postid>#<commentid>

Here is a quick gpt4 generated userscript that does this.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Always show in-context comments
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Redirect from '?commentId=' format to '#'
// @author       Vlad Sitalo
// @match        https://www.lesswrong.com/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==


(function() {
    'use strict';

    var checkAndRedirect = function() {
        var url = window.location.href;
        if(url.includes("?commentId=")){
            var newUrl = url.split("?commentId=").join("#");
            window.location.href = newUrl;
        }
    };

    // Run on page load
    checkAndRedirect();

    // Run on URL change
    var pushState = history.pushState;
    history.pushState = function() {
        pushState.apply(history, arguments);
        checkAndRedirect();
    };

    var replaceState = history.replaceState;
    history.replaceState = function() {
        replaceState.apply(history, arguments);
        checkAndRedirect();
    };

    window.addEventListener('popstate', checkAndRedirect);
})();