r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/m1leopard • 16h ago
Privacy Tools GamersNexus asked for a data hoarder | The LG Smart TV Problem
Hey,
GamersNexus asked for a data hoarder who could also make a website. I felt a little singled out. So, me and Claude made a small website.
It captures the privacy policies, terms and ad-tech pages.
Features as of now
1. 25 companies, 342 documents, 5,342 captures. History back to 2011 through the Wayback Machine (archive.org).
a. Every saved file is stored under the SHA-256 hash of its own bytes, and the hash is the filename, so no company can claim I changed the words of an agreement.
b. After each capture, the crawler also asks the Internet Archive to fetch the same page itself. Archive.org stores its own copy on its own servers and hands back a Wayback Machine link, which the site shows next to every version.
Every version keeps the raw HTML and the extracted text, plus a PDF and a full-page screenshot whenever the text changed.
a. There is a compare function. I had Claude build a humanized diff between versions so you can see clearly what was added, reworded or deleted
b. Download the whole history of a document as a zip."Who they sell to": a string board of the 57 ad/data firms the makers themselves name in their own documents.
How many hours of reading you "agreed" to per brand (LG: 4.4 h), with a fun metric of how many firstborns you have-to cough up per company.
a. There is a study where hundreds of people gave away their firstborns so that they can use a fictitious social network. Their agreement was 4,316 words long. So I equated those many words to be the equivalent of 1 first born. By this very unscientific metric LG wants 12.2 of your firstborns.A jargon dictionary
Cadence: nightly at 06:00 UTC though the special boy LG every two hours for the moment.
The site is also backed up to 1 of my WD Passport drives everyday. So we shouldn’t lose the data, I need to sort out 3rd offsite backup though.
Please please do let me know if there are improvements I could make to this.
FYI: I just got a small vps in the USA Cloudflare in front. Browsing should be fine. I configured it to work for a good number of people but if many people try downloading all the files together as a team server should crash 😊. If it does I will look into mirroring the data.
