Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small

Posted by bob on Jan 27, 2026 7:41 AM EDT
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Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…

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