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If Edward Snowden wasn't a real whistleblower, what was he there to achieve?...

The mask was sure to drop off sooner or later.

Expressly for the benefit of anyone who thinks that renting access to a Silicon Valley search engine is a good idea, here are some points to consider before parting with your hard-earned dosh in exchange for "Google in a flat cap"...

The progressive enlazification of society has mapped out a corporatocratic playbook in which the public are ruled not by the fist or the gun - but by their own aversion to effort.

If you trace back the roots of the things for which Google ultimately became infamous, you'll notice a glaring conundrum.

"AI assistants" are a licence to perpetrate unprecedented corporate evil.

Teaching the world DIY application-building techniques is a fundamental contradiction to the Big Tech agenda of creating and exploiting maximum public dependency.

If it's worth more broken than it's worth in a functional state, then inevitably, those with the power to do so will make sure it gets broken.

Isn't a firewall meant to stop unauthorised entry?...

A carefully orchestrated non-commercial Web could cause the tech industry giants an excruciating headache.

Has Cory Doctorow's tireless "enshittification" campaign been the axle of a people's fightback, or just a two-faced diversion from his own starring role in destroying the World Wide Web?...

As "ethical tech" squeezes the next generation of Surveillance Valley supervillainware into its media-endorsed offerings, observers scratch their heads.

All browser providers claim to care about privacy.

If the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same behaviour with the expectation of different outcomes, we are all insane.

What is propaganda-hacking?

Capitalism's approach to finding talent is roughly like trying to select a romantic partner by touring the neighbourhood in a blindfold and earplugs, soliciting formally-declared sexual histories and then submitting a marriage proposal to the community me…

As we sit in dismay amid the World Wide Web's Great Decline, our mindset is one of resignation.

We are deluding ourselves that Firefox is a competitor to Chrome, when it's really Google's weapon against competition itself.

If slavery persisted because the law failed to restrain inhuman greed, we must surely now be dangerously close to entering a renaissance.

There's a common belief that artificial intelligence took a giant leap in efficiency during 2022.

Surveillance capitalists have developed spectacularly efficient and sophisticated data-collection systems.

It's an irony of our time that the excessive multi-factor authentication measures so aggressively pushed by Surveillance Valley, have proved more likely to lose you your account than protect it against hackers.

We've recently entered the first ever period in which the progress of the World Wide Web is widely perceived to have dropped into retrograde.

The value of an account on an exploitative, ad-strewn Silicon Valley silo was established at $0, and it's always been considered expensive at that.

Why does every new initiative that Silicon Valley companies introduce seem more like the work of a police department than the work of a commercial brand?

The amount of money that tech giants have spent capturing and co-opting the arena of Web-development is truly breathtaking.

Unrestrained by web standards arbiters, cybertech giants use over-complexity as a weapon, creating lock-ins for consumers, barriers to entry for all but the very richest competitors, and a global data checkpoint around which no one can realistically build…

IndieWebCamp was not about "owning your data".

Frictionless query and response (a la ChatGPT) appears to almost guarantee the demise of Google Search in its current form.

Once upon a time, long before anyone considered Google to be evil, Google devised an evil plan.

Many people cite companies like Google as "leftists", but they're as right wing as it gets.

Privacy died because journalism died.

We've gone past "First they ignore you...", and moved onto the next logical step in the game of tech monopoly: "...Then they embrace, extend and extinguish you."

Back in June, Brave Software CEO Brendan Eich took to Twitter to theatrically trash rival search brand DuckDuckGo, who were still reeling from two rounds of embarrassing media stories.

Have you ever given Tor browser a reality check and thought...

Back in 2016, when Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) [PDF] was first communicated to businesses, a warning shot echoed across the realm of online tracking.

Imagine, if you will, an online world in which there is no such thing as Google.

If you've never before published content on a Creative Commons licence, have you ever wondered what happens when you do?