What we measured
We loaded eff.org 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
- 10
- Design
- 8
- Reach
- 9
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 10
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 9
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 eff.org, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from EFF Deeplinks
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
- Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms
- Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court
- Meta Must Stop Silencing Reproductive Health Information
- Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
- Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA
- Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
- Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
- Technology's Power in the Hands of the People
- The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks
- EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act
- EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal
- The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
- Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF?
- EFF at BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON 👨💻
- Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy
Where it sits in Tech & AI
- #4 Schneier on Security89
- #5 Krebs on Security88.5
- #6 EFF Deeplinks87.5
- #7 Quanta Magazine86.5
- #8 Benedict Evans85