Is there any rationale behind the decision of publishing this exclusively as an extension? Why is it not possible to just provide a public webform. I want to try it out but it doesn't support Firefox yet.
A little context about the author, as it may have a bearing on this particular project:
<a href="https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels</a>
will this tool alleviate or exacerbate the current conspiracy theories about WEF or the Gates Foundation? looking over the results my bet is 100% exacerbate. it’s a tool made to fan the flames, not to extinguish them, not to make us understand things better.
For more in this space, there's Josh On's 2001<p><a href="https://www.theyrule.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theyrule.net/</a><p>which may or may not have been kept up to date (it's an ongoing task to track board members and sub company inter connects).<p>Commercially in the Minerals domain<p><a href="https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...</a><p>(subscription) is kept up to date by parsing the stock exchange release documents across Toronto TSX, London Metals, South Africa, Sydney, etc.<p>Are there any good free | low cost sites tracking mineral, energy, media, think tank, etc. interconnects and ownerships?<p>It's no small task to stay up to date and an area where some effort is made to obfuscate some (but not all) direct and indirect control.
Well this seems like a useful tool. I had considered doing something similar at one point - to show significant share holders of public companies.<p>Good job! I’ll try it out
Bureau van Dijk or Dun and Bradstreet should release a version of this. All of their business entity beneficial owner data would provide a much more straightforward version of this. Granted, that wouldn't include political spending or anything like that.
The irony of ironies:<p>The same people who seem to fear "premature judgement" caused by this extension<p>are the ones who skim the author's Twitter page for a few keywords, returning immediately with a judgement.<p>Don't we need more such geniuses.