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I spent twelve months spying on the things spying on me — a $300 vacuum, a smart plug, and a video doorbell — using nothing but a Raspberry Pi and free network tools. The destinations will not surprise you, but the volume might.
Nobody reads the terms of service — but an actual attorney does, and I paid her to walk me through ten of them. What she found buried in Instagram, DoorDash, and Duolingo made me rethink every 'I Agree' tap I've ever done.
For one month, I treated my password manager's vault like a diary — reading every stored string, address, and security note as an archaeological record of my digital self. What I found: 214 accounts, a 2011 AOL email I never deleted, and a billing address from an apartment I moved out of during the Obama administration.
In 2023, security researchers swore the new .zip and .mov domains would fuel a phishing apocalypse. Three years later, your aunt is still clicking the same sketchy links she always has. A retrospective on tech's favorite pastime: predicting doom.
The .io top-level domain is on a scheduled path to retirement, and thousands of tech companies built their entire brand on it. Between SEO headaches, domain squatters, and the awkward geopolitics of it all, this is the biggest forced migration the modern web has seen.
Webrings, visitor counters, and marquee text are back — built by developers who weren't even alive for the original wave. Here's why the messy, personal web is winning hearts again, and how to stake your own claim.