A zero-surveillance, local-first telemetry architecture engineered for digital sovereignty and cryptographic privacy.
The Elon Report Extension (ERE) is purpose-built for an audience that values cryptographic self-sovereignty, privacy, and open verifiability (including the Bitcointalk, Bitcoin, and developer communities).
Most commercial browser extensions operate as data vacuums: recording full browsing history, capturing private search queries, logging IP addresses, and selling telemetry streams to data brokers.
ERE is engineered with the exact opposite paradigm: local-first domain evaluation where 99.9% of the web is completely invisible to our servers. Your personal browsing, banking, email, work, and general internet activity never leave your machine.
When you browse the internet with ERE installed, your browsing activity is not streamed to any remote server.
If and only if you navigate to a domain that matches one of the 8 curated Pillars (such as bitcointalk.org, tesla.com, spacex.com, or x.com), ERE transmits a minimal telemetry payload stripped down strictly to root domain identifiers:
The browser address is stripped down to the root domain / base URL client-side before any network request is created. Full page paths, thread titles, post IDs, search queries, and parameter strings are NEVER transmitted, NEVER received, and NEVER processed by our servers.
| Data Point | Sample Value | Technical Purpose |
|---|---|---|
Client UUID |
ere_a8f9c2d1-... |
Credits merit points to your pseudonymous installation. |
Root Domain / Base URL |
bitcointalk.org |
Calculates aggregate 24-hour category rankings (or reddit.com/r/bitcoin for subreddits). |
Pillar ID |
7 |
Categorizes visit under the matching Pillar (1–8). |
Merit scoring is strictly capped at 1 point per domain per 24-hour rolling window. Repeated visits or rapid refreshes on the same domain increment aggregate platform statistics, but cannot be exploited to artificially farm merit scores.
We have intentionally designed the database schema, API contracts, and client extensions to make surveillance technically impossible:
https://bitcointalk.org). We never see, transmit, or store specific forum threads, article titles, search queries, or internal page paths. For community platforms with path-scoped communities (e.g. Reddit), only the top-level subreddit is retained (e.g. reddit.com/r/Bitcoin), while all individual post paths, comments, and query parameters are permanently stripped.wp_ere_visits and wp_ere_clients) do not contain an IP address column. Telemetry visits are not associated with or indexed by your IP address.
ERE includes an optional custom Dark Theme engineered exclusively for bitcointalk.org (it operates nowhere else and cannot be applied to any other website). When enabled, local CSS stylesheet rules are injected into the page DOM to improve readability. Nothing else is sent or collected—forum posts, user inputs, and page contents remain completely untouched; only the client-side CSS visual presentation is adjusted on that website.
Your identity in ERE is an anonymous string generated client-side:
ere_xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx) stored strictly in chrome.storage.local.
All extension state is stored locally inside your browser's sandboxed chrome.storage.local and IndexedDB partitions:
| Storage Key | Description |
|---|---|
ere_uuid |
Your pseudonymous client identifier. |
isPaused |
Master tracking pause toggle state. |
hudPosition |
Saved screen coordinates { x, y } for the floating HUD pill. |
idleOpacity |
HUD transparency percentage when idle or unhovered. |
bitcointalkDarkTheme |
Dark theme preference for Bitcointalk.org (on or off). |
hudDisplayMode |
Right-pill display mode (total, unique, or rank). |
personalStats |
Cached total visits, merit points, and pillar distribution. |
ere_domain_db (IndexedDB) |
Local cached dictionary of 1.3M+ domain classifications for offline evaluation. |
ERE communicates exclusively with https://elon.report over encrypted TLS 1.3:
POST https://elon.report/wp-json/ere/v1/track (Sends telemetry when a Pillar domain is visited) GET https://elon.report/wp-json/ere/v1/domains (Daily synchronization of 1.3M+ domain classifications) GET https://elon.report/wp-json/ere/v1/global-stats (Fetches aggregate platform-wide total visits) POST https://elon.report/wp-json/ere/v1/submit-domain (Sent only when you voluntarily submit an unlisted domain)
You can instantly pause all extension activity at any time by clicking Pause in the HUD modal or selecting Pause / Resume Tracking from Chrome's extension context menu. When paused, the HUD displays ⏸ and zero telemetry is recorded or sent anywhere.
ERE provides a live, rolling 5-minute telemetry log directly in the HUD. You can inspect every evaluated domain and confirm that non-pillar domains are labeled Untracked and never sent upstream. Consecutive page views on the same domain update the top timestamp to keep your audit log clean and legible.
Uninstalling ERE from Chrome immediately and irreversibly purges all local storage, IndexedDB caches, and saved preferences from your machine.
Privacy claims without code verification are meaningless. ERE is completely open-source:
content.js, background.js, theme_boot.js) are distributed unminified and readable directly in your Chrome extension installation directory or on GitHub.chrome://extensions in your browser.We welcome public security audits, domain classification suggestions, and code review: