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Notes on building tools that fix real consumer problems — how they work, why they exist, and the code behind them.

The Illusion of Consent: How Cookie Walls Bypass Privacy Laws

Most cookie banners are designed to manipulate you into accepting tracking. Here's the code behind the trick.

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The Checkout Intercept: How Cybercriminals Steal Your Card Data Without Touching Your Phone

The padlock icon doesn't mean your card is safe. Here's the JavaScript technique criminals use to clone your payment data on fully legitimate sites.

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The 60% Trap: Why E-Commerce Giants Are Laundering Discounts

60% of online retailers fail basic pricing transparency laws. Here's the JavaScript behind fake discounts — and the tools that expose it.

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I built a phishing detector into Chrome using Claude AI. Here's exactly how.

A weekend build using Claude AI to flag scam SMS and emails in real time — the Cloudflare Worker proxy pattern, the prompt, and the one parsing bug that fooled me.

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I built a Chrome extension that catches every dark pattern trick on shopping sites. Here's exactly how.

Flagging fake urgency, trap checkboxes and confirmshaming in real time with pure regex and DOM inspection — no AI, no API calls, works offline.

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