Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Man, if you thought HP's price-gouging and anti-circumvention racket on printer-ink cartridges was bad, here's the #Danaher CEO on how awesome it is to do exactly the same thing but with fast, accurate #tuberculosis tests that identify antibiotic resistance:

"These are razor-blade business models in mission-critical applications."

https://tbfighters.org/

@pluralistic's new book "The Internet Con" is a great backgrounder on the laws that enable this kind of business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSC06P9A5W4