Extension: Allow trusting sites without human.json #39

kytta commented 2026年03月24日 15:38:54 +01:00

I've been using the extension for a few days, and it's been very nice. However, I was hoping for the extension to be a sort of "vouch manager" for my human.json.

Basically, the workflow I imagine:

1. I visit some website
2. I am sure the owner of that website is a human, so I trust them
3. I keep browsing the web and collecting URLs
4. Periodically, I export the human.json and push it to my website's root to update my own vouches.

Right now, the step 2 does not work if the site I'm visiting does not define a human.json file. I just can't click the button and have to add them myself.

I guess this makes sense: After all, what path should I trust when visiting a subpage. Do you have ideas on how this could be implemented? Maybe a text field to add generic URLs to the "trust store"?

I've been using the extension for a few days, and it's been very nice. However, I was hoping for the extension to be a sort of "vouch manager" for my human.json. Basically, the workflow I imagine: 1. I visit some website 2. I am sure the owner of that website is a human, so I trust them 3. I keep browsing the web and collecting URLs 4. Periodically, I export the human.json and push it to my website's root to update my own vouches. Right now, the step 2 does not work if the site I'm visiting does not define a human.json file. I just can't click the button and have to add them myself. I guess this makes sense: After all, what path should I trust when visiting a subpage. Do you have ideas on how this could be implemented? Maybe a text field to add generic URLs to the "trust store"?

robida commented 2026年03月25日 05:18:49 +01:00

I think we could add a "Trust Anyway" button when the website doesn't have a human.json, and give the user the option to edit the URL before trusting? For example:

1. I visit https://alice.example.com/posts/2026/01/01/hello-world.
2. There's no rel="human-json" in the page.
3. I see in the extension: "Not participating in human.json", and the button "Trust Site Anyway".
4. A modal pops up with the full URL, and I can shorten it to, say, https://alice.example.com/posts/.

I think we could add a "Trust Anyway" button when the website doesn't have a `human.json`, and give the user the option to edit the URL before trusting? For example: 1. I visit https://alice.example.com/posts/2026/01/01/hello-world. 2. There's no `rel="human-json"` in the page. 3. I see in the extension: "Not participating in human.json", and the button "Trust Site Anyway". 4. A modal pops up with the full URL, and I can shorten it to, say, https://alice.example.com/posts/.

addisoncrump commented 2026年03月25日 05:23:01 +01:00

Can't this already be done by adding it to your own human.json? I suppose not everyone has a website, so maybe it would be better to be able to produce one's own human.json within the extension (and then optionally export this so we can distribute it via our own websites).

Can't this already be done by adding it to your own `human.json`? I suppose not everyone has a website, so maybe it would be better to be able to produce one's own `human.json` within the extension (and then optionally export this so we can distribute it via our own websites).

kytta commented 2026年03月29日 15:16:03 +02:00

@addisoncrump wrote in #39 (comment):

Can't this already be done by adding it to your own human.json?

Yes, but my ultimate goal is to not have to do it. I want to have a GUI for my JSON file :D

@addisoncrump wrote in https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json/issues/39#issuecomment-12061719: > Can't this already be done by adding it to your own `human.json`? Yes, but my ultimate goal is to not have to do it. I want to have a GUI for my JSON file :D