About WebUser

WebUser exists to help people get the most from the internet. We write for anyone who uses the web but isn't a developer — whether you've been online for years or you're just finding your feet — and now has to make sense of AI at work, a confusing hardware market, and a life that quietly moved into the cloud.

Since 1996

WebUser has been online since 1996, under the same ownership the whole way through. It began as a curated guide to the best of the web — a small team finding good sites by hand and recommending the best in each category, back when the web was young and search barely worked. The promise on the homepage in those days was plain: the difference is people, and the result is quality. Kathryn edited it then. She is still with us now.

That isn't nostalgia. The problem we started with has come back, larger than ever. In 1996 the web was hard to navigate because there was no good map. Today it's hard to navigate because there's too much of it — endless feeds, search results shaped by whoever games them best, and now AI generating more pages in a day than a person could read in a lifetime. More noise, the same shortage of signal.

So we have rebooted WebUser for this version of the problem, with the conviction we started with: that the difference is people. Software can sort and rank and generate without end. It cannot care whether the result is any good. We can. That is the whole point of the place.

We write about the things that matter:

• AI for humans — using the tools, not building them.
• Practical hardware — what you actually need.
• Demystifying cloud — where your files live and what you own.
• This week — a Friday read on what actually mattered.

We don't track you

We mean it literally. No cookies. No analytics, not even the privacy-friendly kind. No tracking scripts. No advertising. No accounts, so there is nothing to collect and nothing to leak. Open your browser's developer tools and look: nothing on this site phones home.

Like every website, our server keeps basic logs — the same kind every site you visit already generates. We don't use them to build a profile of you, and we don't share them. That's the whole of it.

We correct our mistakes

We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix it within 24 hours, add a dated note to the piece, and log it on our corrections page. A publication with no corrections isn't perfect — it just isn't checking.

Contact

Tips, corrections, disagreements, and suggestions all go to contact@webuser.com. We read everything.