If that is true, it's a 'feature' I don't want. It pisses me off when I browse Hacker News and people have their comments grayed out and sometimes dead in the water.
If it is not a bug and is intentional and AOU states it will be staying, here is one way that you can manually undo the change if you might be interested.
If you are not currently using it, Stylus is very helpful for altering the look of specific sites through full themes or just minor changes like removing this lowered opacity.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
If you create a new theme in it and change what sites the change is active on to poal.co and all pages on the domain, you can revert those elements to being full opacity again with this CSS code:
.commblocked { opacity: 1; }
To be clear, "Stylus" is useful for custom CSS for sites, not "Stylish" - Stylish steals user data. https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/05/browsers_pull_stylish_but_invasive_browser_extension/ https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/69229/anyway-to-stop-stylish-stealing-my-data https://www.izoologic.com/2019/01/14/popular-browser-extension-stylish-discovered-stealing-browser-data/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/3ztpau/stylish_does_it_data_track/ https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/199218/is-stylish-safe-to-use-again https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/ https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/07/05/similar-web-has-been-this-browser-extension-it-bought-in-2017-to-steal-the-browsing-history-of-2-million-users/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447816
I'm not going to code the fucking sites I want to browse. That's for them to do. I do appreciate the suggestion, and maybe it will become useful, but this shit's just gay.
it's a 'feature' I don't want.
lol You're free to kvetch on fakevoat then.
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