I remember when I (naively, but not alone) thought that the Personal Computer would let us--consumers, individuals--express our own agency and priorities and control, a kind of democratized capital mini-factory anyone (or group) could tailor to their own needs.

Nowadays it feels more like "Visitors shall think what our brain-stream tells you to think, or be guilty of contempt of business model."

Is there any important legal difference between what's happening here versus a bunch of friends running a "share and notice favorite deals" collective via plugin+server?

> express our own agency

ironically a local model and Playwright/OpenClaw is pretty close