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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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[–] 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