April 2025
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The Quiet Mess Behind “Smart” Doorbell Cameras
The tech companies want you to believe your fifty quid door camera makes you safer. In reality, you might be installing a 24/7 surveillance device for other people’s benefit, handing out free intelligence to burglars, and feeding a data machine that knows more about your life than your neighbours do. This isn’t tinfoil hat stuff.…
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Meditation Apps Scam (And We’re the Mugs They Cash In On)
So you downloaded another meditation or hypnotherapy app, did you? Thought this one might be the one that finally calms your overcooked brain and helps you sleep like a baby seal in a sunbeam? Well done, you’ve just funded another snake oil circus dressed up in pastel gradients and faux mindfulness. Let’s rip the mask…
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Your Website’s Navigation Could Annoy Your Visitors
So many website headers (especially on mobile) are bollocks when it comes to usability – or useful at all. They either hog the screen permanently like some needy toddler demanding attention, or they vanish completely, forcing people to scroll all the way back up when they actually need them. Neither works. This is an update…
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The Basics of International Checkouts and Why This is Still a Problem?
There’s a particular type of digital cock-up that doesn’t just scream “we didn’t test this” – it grabs a megaphone, stands on your checkout page, and yells “we couldn’t care less about customers outside the US”. You’ve probably seen it. You try to buy something. Fill in your details. You’re doing everything right, playing by…