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Twenty years building for the open web. Browsers, extensions, search, ads. Currently tracking the trackers at Ghostery; previously building browsers at Cliqz. Here I write about what survives — and what should.

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  1. 2026·05·21

    A cookie banner can make a vision model read the wrong page

    When a cookie banner is on screen at screenshot time, vision models often invent plausible headlines instead of failing loudly. 180 API calls across 9 news sites quantify it.

    ai · vision · browsers · ghostery · scraping · 10 min read
  2. 2016·05·29

    hello world

    First post. The accidental origin story of chrmod.net — Hugo, GitHub Pages, and a screenshot Reddit refused to take.

    meta · 3 min read