Having looked through the meta content of Fiverr's home page (yikes on bikes!), I think I'm going to have to learn how to make browser extensions for Firefox and create eMEARNgency (a plugin that parses and scans a Website's HTML, looking for such nasties as the MEARN stack, Google and FB code, issuing a warning about data and identity privacy and security risks if it finds any of them). Conceptually, it'll have the same sort of output as ToS;DR, but show the number of things found instead of an alphabetic rating. Of course, what would be particularly useful is if it can bring to an emergency stop loading of a Web page until a user is made aware of the risks and either acknowledged that they accept them or refused to use the site (a bit like how AV/Internet Security apps can prevent a page from loading and block certain malicious domains). With the popularity of such technologies (given the number of Web dev jobs that require MEARN experience/knowledge), I anticipate there are going to be more Websites using them as time goes by. I certainly don't want to spend any time on those sites (except to investigate the code for things for which the plugin should look out and warn against).
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