What we measured
We loaded citizenlab.ca in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 10
- Signal-to-noise
- 9
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 5
- Independence
- 8
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of citizenlab.ca, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from Citizen Lab
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Inside the Fake Copyright Racket Silencing News Outlets
- Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
- A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology
- Kate Robertson on the Risks That Lie Behind Canada’s Unexpected Signing of the UN Cybercrime Convention
- Co-Founder of Controversial Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport
- How Iran Uses Cellular Infrastructure to Target US Military Phones
- US Military Smartphones Targeted Through Roaming and Ad Tech
- Canada’s Electronic Spy Agency Conducted Cyberattacks on Criminals Brokering Fentanyl Ingredients, Report Says
- AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged–And It Will Chill Social Progress
- Emile Dirks Elected to PEN Canada’s Board of Directors
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #10 The Markup85
- #11 Platformer84
- #12 Citizen Lab83.5
- #13 LWN.net83.5
- #14 Troy Hunt83.5