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I often think the same thing. There needs to be a UL type company that certifies a product or service isn't spying on you.

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> There needs to be a UL type company that certifies a product or service isn't spying on you.

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Counterpoint: Pay me and I'll do it!

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Approximately 1.5 million NGOs operate in the United States. There is no even up-to-date list of OpenWRT capable home routers. Or of not phoning home (to Chinese cloud) CCTV cams.

> Approximately 1.5 million NGOs operate in the United States

.. what does that have to do with anything?

There are dozens of NGOs trying to save you from genetically modified crops, or raising awareness about chemicals in your soap, or fighting day and night to save cockroaches from extinction. The only one that absent is the NGO that would make a list of goods spying on a customer and bring it up on some website. Isn't that funny?

Well, you could start one?

I would have thought this was within the remit of the EFF, but then so are a lot of other things.

Mozilla kind of started one last year although I don't know if it's still maintained.

https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-us/privacynotincluded/why-we...

What about Free Software Foundation?

https://fsf.org/ryf

Wouldn’t the list of config files in openwrt itself work?

For Uncle Joe? I doubt it.

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