AffinityBound by Jason

AffinityBound helps you see who's really behind the media you're browsing: ownership among the countries covered by the extension's curated database (currently Canada, US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and expanding over time), plus funding source, editorial independence, and public-service mandate where known. On YouTube, it also identifies a curated set of Canadian creators by handle, even on a platform that isn't Canadian-owned itself.

The extension analyzes the websites and channels you visit and shows a badge/notification indicating a source's ownership -- entirely locally, with no browsing data collected or transmitted.

With geolocation consent granted on the Privacy page, it also flags when a source's owner is based outside your own country -- resolved entirely offline from coarse, bundled country boundaries, no location data ever transmitted.

A Featured Media page highlights the most and least structurally insulated outlets in the database each season, automatically rotating with no maintenance required.

The start page is the Newsroom: a full-screen rolling news channel built from the outlets you choose to follow, each headline showing its outlet's ownership, beside a live stream you pick. It is opt-in — nothing is requested from any outlet until you follow it and grant that outlet's permission — and you can hide headline languages you don't read. A burn-in protection mode (on by default) slowly shifts pixels and shows an hourly full-screen clock.

It tracks media conglomerates including Postmedia Network, Sun Media, and Reuters, while highlighting independent and public alternatives like CBC, The Narwhal, and The Tyee.

With media ownership increasingly concentrated across borders, AffinityBound helps you support the journalism you actually intend to support and maintain diverse perspectives in your news diet.