Blogging platform privacy ratings
Blogging platforms.
12 blogging are rated against 9 public criteria, and 12 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Of the 11 with a known jurisdiction, 8 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 9 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.
Open-source blogging only · Criteria for this category · Suggest an addition · Markdown
| Name | Grade | Score | Data | Jurisdiction | Open source | No trackers or telemetry | No ads or data sales | Independent audit | Transparency report | Tells users about requests | TLS configuration | Security headers | Modern web standards |
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Self-hostable web client for XMPP that combines chat, group chat, video calls, personal blogs and communities, with public instances available. |
Grade C | 62 | 100% | France Nine Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Partial |
Minimal hosted blogging platform with small, fast pages, no third-party trackers and built-in first-party analytics. |
Grade D | 59 | 100% | – | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | Partial | Partial |
Minimal hosted blogging platform with Markdown posts, RSS and email subscriptions, and full export. Operated by a UK company, with public revenue and cost figures. |
Grade D | 59 | 100% | United Kingdom Five Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Hosted services managed over SSH, including a blogging platform (Prose), static site hosting (Pages), pipes and tunnels. Accounts use SSH public keys instead of passwords or email. |
Grade D | 59 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Minimal, federated blogging platform built on ActivityPub, self-hosted or offered as managed hosting by its developer, Musing Studio. |
Grade D | 50 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | No | Partial | No | No |
Open source publishing platform for blogs and newsletters with paid memberships, run by the non-profit Ghost Foundation. Available as hosted Ghost(Pro) or self-hosted. |
Grade D | 47 | 100% | Singapore Outside Eyes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial | Partial |
Minimalist hosted blogging service from Musing Studio, focused on distraction-free writing and anonymous publishing, with federation over ActivityPub. |
Grade D | 47 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Partial | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | No |
Hosted publishing platform for articles and blogs, with a paid membership that unlocks member-only stories and pays writers. |
Grade D | 41 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | Yes | No | Partial | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
Hosted website and blogging platform run by Automattic, built on the open source WordPress software, with web, Android and iOS apps. |
Grade F | 38 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Paid blog hosting service and social network for short and long posts, with custom domains and cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and other networks over ActivityPub. |
Grade F | 35 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Partial |
Free hosted blogging service from Google, with blogs on blogspot.com or a custom domain, tied to a Google account. |
Grade F | 26 | 100% | United States Five Eyes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
Minimal publishing tool from Telegram for posting formatted articles with images, without an account. Pages are public to anyone with the link. |
Grade F | 26 | 100% | British Virgin Islands Outside Eyes | No | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
Questions
What is the most private option among blogging?
No pick has been made yet. The table above is sorted by score, based on public evidence.
How are blogging rated?
Each entry answers 9 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, security headers and modern web standards. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.
Does jurisdiction matter?
Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.