# Blogging privacy ratings

Blogging platforms.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Mataroa](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/mataroa/) | C (63/100) | United Kingdom (Five Eyes) | 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. |
| [Movim](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/movim/) | C (63/100) | France (Nine Eyes) | Self-hostable web client for XMPP that combines chat, group chat, video calls, personal blogs and communities, with public instances available. |
| [Pico](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/pico/) | C (63/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | 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. |
| [Bear Blog](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/bear-blog/) | D (59/100) | Unknown | Minimal hosted blogging platform with small, fast pages, no third-party trackers and built-in first-party analytics. |
| [Write Freely](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/write-freely/) | D (53/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Minimal, federated blogging platform built on ActivityPub, self-hosted or offered as managed hosting by its developer, Musing Studio. |
| [Write.as](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/write-as/) | D (50/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Minimalist hosted blogging service from Musing Studio, focused on distraction-free writing and anonymous publishing, with federation over ActivityPub. |
| [Ghost](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/ghost/) | D (47/100) | Singapore | 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. |
| [Medium](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/medium/) | D (41/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Hosted publishing platform for articles and blogs, with a paid membership that unlocks member-only stories and pays writers. |
| [WordPress.com](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/wordpress-com/) | D (41/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Hosted website and blogging platform run by Automattic, built on the open source WordPress software, with web, Android and iOS apps. |
| [Micro.blog](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/micro-blog/) | F (34/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | 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. |
| [Telegraph](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/telegraph/) | F (28/100) | British Virgin Islands | Minimal publishing tool from Telegram for posting formatted articles with images, without an account. Pages are public to anyone with the link. |
| [Blogger](https://privacyratings.com/blogging/blogger/) | F (25/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Free hosted blogging service from Google, with blogs on blogspot.com or a custom domain, tied to a Google account. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
- **Transparency report** (weight 2): Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
- **Tells users about requests** (weight 1): Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
- **TLS configuration** (weight 2, automated): Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
- **Security headers** (weight 1, automated): Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
- **Modern web standards** (weight 1, automated): Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/blogging/