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There have been many proposals like this before. My favorite idea (which I cannot recall the name of right now) was a browser plugin that would overlay annotations onto arbitrary webpages. People could make it highlight certain questionable bits of text, link to opposing viewpoints or data, and discuss with each other whether the thing was accurate. Imagine a wiki talk page, but for every conceivable site.
There have been several of these. Thiblo is one; it no longer exists. I remember using another one once, but I can't remember what it was now.
There is also that thing that allows for arbitrary pictures to be drawn over arbitrary webpages. I can't remember what it was called either but it was mostly used for low-quality Homestuck porn.
There have been many of these indeed. rbutr is the latest one.
CritLink enabled this before the age of browser plugins.
What would motivate someone to use it when few others were using it?
And how would it deal with spam?
I doubt that a browser plugin which festoons each page with giant INCREASE YOUR MANHOOD "annotations" is going to be popular.
I dunno. CAPTCHAs, plus community policing? I don't remember whether it got off the ground so for all I know that might have killed it anyway.