Router firmware
Gargoyle privacy rating
Router firmware based on OpenWrt with a web interface focused on ease of use, offering per-device bandwidth monitoring, quotas, quality of service, website blocking and VPN.
Summary
Gargoyle scores 50 out of 100 (grade D) on the router firmware criteria. It meets 2 of 4 criteria: open source and no ads or data sales. It does not meet no trackers or telemetry and independent audit.
Score 50 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
GPL-2.0, with some components under LGPL-2.1, MIT and BSD-3-Clause.
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No
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?
Pages of the website, such as the donation page, load Google Analytics.
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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 donations and sales of routers with Gargoyle pre-installed, 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.