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Why not just share a screen on discord etc? I feel this would just be toe stepping

The difference would be that you and a friend are on the same web page, like a news article (the same location), but you still retain control of your page. Scrolling, etc.

Also you can sync YouTube videos, so you get better quality than you would via screen share.

Agree. There's things you can do by virtualizing or instrumenting the browser that you can't with just screen sharing. It's a more specialized technology that powers more specific use cases.

If folks like this, they may also be interested in the neko project: https://github.com/m1k1o/neko

Or even a similar work of my own company: BrowserBox Pro -- where you can share a link to a single browser with multiple people. Co-browsing or co-operative / collaborative browsing is the "term of art" I believe.

https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserBoxPro

I mean with screen sharing, I’d still retain control.

I never saw YouTube quality as an issue, but there are watch together extensions for discord.

I think your better off just making an extension.

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