CLU 21208d50ab feat: the rating badge, served from our domain and regenerated from the record ...

Christian: 'I want them to put the BigTech.Sucks rating badge on their site.
It should be marketing for them.'

A sticker anyone can copy is worthless, so it is not a sticker.

- badge/<product>.svg is generated from the assessment row on every build.
  Score, grade and date are never typed by a human.
- Served from bigtech.sucks. A copy pasted onto a vendor's own server is not a
  badge and its link will not resolve. The domain is the signature.
- Regenerated every build, so improving earns a better badge without asking and
  regressing loses it without warning.
- The SVG carries the record id, version and method in a comment, so a real
  badge can be traced back to one assessment.

badges.html publishes the rules: free forever, only rated products, no badge as
a favour, and misuse called out publicly. Free matters, because charging for it
would make it worthless to both sides: marketing for the vendor, receipts for
their customer.

Also rewrote the write pass to emit report + badge per assessment in one loop, so
they can never drift apart.

2026-10-29 17:24:33 -05:00

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