ESET privacy rating

Summary

ESET scores 20 out of 100 (grade F) on the anti-malware criteria. It meets 1 of 4 criteria: no ads or data sales. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry and independent audit. It is based in Slovakia: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR).

Score 20 out of 100. How scoring works

Criteria

• ✖No

  Open source ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

  Closed source.

• ✖No

  No trackers or telemetry ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

  Exodus finds Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics in the Android app, and the website shares data with third-party ad networks.

  reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org

• ✔Yes

  No ads or data sales ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

  Funded by subscriptions with no ads in the apps; the privacy policy states personal information is not sold for money, though website cookies are shared with ad networks.

  eset.com

• ✖No

  Independent audit ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

  No independent audit is published.