I Audited the Privacy of Popular Free Dev Tools — The Results Are Terrifying
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I tested what happens when you paste code into popular online developer tools. Some sites contact 96 external domains, set 540 cookies, and run real-time ad auctions on your data. Here is everything I found.
  • tangeli@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    ToolBox offers an alternative that sounds good, but I don’t see anything about their funding on the About page. How can it be ‘free forever’? It costs real money to host the tools. Where does that money come from?