Blogging
Write Freely privacy rating
Minimal, federated blogging platform built on ActivityPub, self-hosted or offered as managed hosting by its developer, Musing Studio.
Summary
Write Freely scores 53 out of 100 (grade D) on the blogging criteria. It meets 2 of 8 criteria: open source and no ads or data sales. It partly meets no trackers or telemetry, transparency report and TLS configuration. It does not meet independent audit, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade B and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade D-.
Score 53 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Partial
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The software has no telemetry, but the developer's websites use self-hosted Matomo analytics, which respects Do Not Track and offers an opt-out.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid hosting, app sales and donations, with no ads.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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Partial
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
The developer publishes a quarterly warrant canary and a policy of reviewing every legal request, but no request counts.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
Automated tests
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Partial
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade B
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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade D- (25/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.