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Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter (foundation.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh. That's not clear at all; I don't even remember seeing a reference to a tool.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hangouts was an odd choice. Didn't that get shut down recently?

[–] rush@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

somehow, it still exists.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I'll be damned. It's still in the play store.

Is it just for workspaces or something? I would have sworn they shut it down.

[–] rush@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I have no idea, I think its kinda merged with Duo and Meet?

[–] drekly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw discord in there as well as smart TV platforms

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago

Oh interesting; I wonder if the quiz just chooses a random assortment of a big list of tools?

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I was thinking the same thing. Apparently I'm "off the grid" because the only thing they listed that I use is telegram

[–] DNU@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Id guess maybe because Email is inherently insecure?