Mozilla’s Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter distills what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s just plain creepy in the world of consumer tech.
Includes ‘big picture trends’, ‘best and worst products’, and ‘numbers’
If you haven’t used PrivacyNotIncluded before, here is a link to the homepage where you can search up other products and services that you are interested in: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded
Seems like a weird and random assortment of items. Why was Google Hangouts mentioned, but not Gmail? What about Discord, Slack, etc? Or smart TVs? Almost felt more like guerrilla advertising for a few niche products.
It’s a short fun quiz that’s meant to direct your attention to the actual tool (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded) which has a lot more stuff. The key bit on this page is the summary underneath
You can find the rest of the video call services here: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/video-call-apps/
They have sections for smart home products and entertainment, but no smartTVs yet. Would be a cool category to request
Oh. That’s not clear at all; I don’t even remember seeing a reference to a tool.
The tool is the site itself, I guess they could have included a link back
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded
It’s also on me since I got to the article from the site, so maybe they assumed users would have done the same
I was thinking the same thing. Apparently I’m “off the grid” because the only thing they listed that I use is telegram
Id guess maybe because Email is inherently insecure?
How in the world could all of these products have good privacy? https://i.imgur.com/1NdcB5y.png
https://i.imgur.com/fKJ9OV1.png
There’s no way lol
Yea I’m starting to think the quiz is broken lol
Guess they should have hired me one of the 3 times I applied to Mozilla, smh.
It is because nobody uses Google Hangouts
Huh, it thinks I’m off the grid because all my horrible privacy invading gear is Google, Samsung, and Philips.
Yeah this website sucks.
The tool itself is decent. I think the quiz is broken lol
I guess the emoji were there to set the proper mood, which they succeeded in, as the most horrifying thing about that article definitely was the abhorrent use of emoji.
Closely followed by me not being able to tick a single product in their quiz and getting a “perfect score” while using Discord, of all things, as primary messenger…
I noticed that devs really love to put emojis on everything.
Must be a correlation.
I half expected them to absolutely rip into the Apple Watch. Instead, a lot of other smart watches and fitness trackers that are a lot higher on the big list, and the top two things in this list that I have are… WhatsApp and Discord. Figures, those are the two I’d be most happy to get rid of for good (though Discord a lot more than WhatsApp).
Also holy shit the state of car privacy is bad.
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The Nissan thing was recently clarified by Louis Rossmann as accidental misinformation.
Neat, says I’m off the grid, I’m a bit shocked after clicking like 6 things but hey.
