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Thoughts on privacy, mobile gaming, and building software that doesn't surveil the people using it.
On ads: Road Notes runs display ads, and I may earn money from them. That's how this blog covers its costs. The app is a different matter entirely — Eat a Mile is ad-free, and that's not changing.
A free game rarely costs nothing — it just collects the payment in attention and data instead of dollars. A look at streaks, FOMO, and notifications, and why a game that respects your time is willing to let you put it down.
Read →Eat a Mile opens straight into play — no account, no sign-up, no password. Here's why skipping the login screen ruled out tracking, server outages, and engagement traps in one move.
Read →Most free mobile games are surveillance tools with a game layered on top. Here's what retargeting, social media pixels, and attribution SDKs actually do — and why Eat a Mile uses none of them.
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