I wish I had a list, as you said, they are in short supply. If there is a site out there that catalogs simple straightforward business that don’t compromise a customers ability to be anonymous, I’d like it very much.

A HN user posted about a site they made for faxing documents the other day. It’s a good example of how I think most things should be setup in many cases. You pay a fee and it sends a fax, that is very simple to understand. There are no accounts and the documents are only stored long enough to fulfill the service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310161

You can imagine how most “modern” sites would handle faxing. Make an account, link a credit card, provide your address to validate the credit card. Then store all the faxes that were sent, claiming it’s for easy reference. Meanwhile it’s running OCR on them in the background to build a profile with a wealth of personal data. After all, people don’t tend to fax trivial things. In addition to the profits from the user, they are making a killing on selling data to advertisers… but those details are hidden away in legalese of the fine print in a policy no one actually reads.