Please bookmark ToS;DR. This is one of your main search engines this year.

Specifically, you are looking for rules in the theme of "data brokerage"; rules such as:

• Amazon's "Voice data is collected and shared with third-parties",
• Facebook's "Deleted content is not really deleted",
• Apple's "Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to you",
• Reddit's "Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.",
• YouTube's "This service can view your browser history",
• Quora's "They store data on you even if you did not interact with the service",
• PayPal's "This service still tracks you even if you opted out from tracking"

These are only chosen from the homepage! You're responsible for searching the apps you use. Ignorance may be a popular excuse, but when apps sell your data, these are the buyers.

To begin, I use Brave.

Brave is more secure than normal; imagine Chrome with a bunch of the Google ripped out. This means any Google plugin runs in Brave.

Also, Firefox copied the plugins from Chrome, so you can probably find the same plugins in their web stores.

You may see plugins called "extensions"; that's a hairy issue.

Here are the plugins I use daily.

• uBlock Origin

  Blocks so many ads that some days I forget that most people still have ads. Also keeps me from clicking through on some clickbait.

• ToS;DR

  If you pin this to the menu bar, you'll see an A -> F letter grade for each domain. Click to read the main concerns before signing up, or flushing your cookies and running.

• Vimium (source)

  Move around and through pages using your keyboard alone. The mouse-to-keyboard loop is gradually breaking your mobility, so load this up and press ? on any page to see your new commands.

• Proton Pass (sign up!)

  You need a password manager that has encrypted sync, and your browser's built-in one is a cheap replica. As you use Proton Pass you'll be pleased to see the pop-ups for "passkeys", which enable one-click, no-pass logins.

• TabFS

  For the real hackers in the audience, because this plugin requires moving some config files around. When you're done though, you'll see a local file share that mirrors the open tabs in your browser. This plugin encouraged me to change from Firefox -> Brave, because independent plugin management is simpler in Chromium. Omar's one-page explanation is superb.

"Yeah I saw that cccongress was spicy this year"
-- Waffles, on Signal.

I'll add more as I consume more.

Cory Doctorow, "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet"

Martha Root, "The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber" (english dubbing optional)

Another day, more progress on an assignment no one asked for.

So, another day in on preparing fiscal records. This round, I'm recording from my camper, and chose a vertical display to help anyone using their phone.

Signal is bad here, so my 1.9GB recording is really plugging up the 5g connection. I'll see when I can upload, and sorry for the delay.

Upload finished on highway.... hands free?

gram:fiscal is an example of how NuShell "excels" in mundane minutiae.

In days ahead, shall add code to expose records in more common and accessible forms.

So as to keep my mind as clear as possible, here are my plans. again.

Pool

Pool is designed to be the hub of your local-web; keeping your primary relay online and secure by using MicroVMs and local networking to deploy and manage open-source web apps.

POOL:

Relay

Relay is a desktop or local-web app, designed to run sandboxed peer-to-peer communication using AtomVM, and using permissioned message channels to manage OS operations, through a local rust compile-and-plugin procedure.

RELAY: