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| b | No vegan or vegetarian badge | AdNauseam | An open-source browser extension built on uBlock Origin that blocks ads and can automatically click blocked ads to obfuscate tracking profiles. AdNauseam scores very well because it gives users a direct privacy-protest tool against ad surveillance, though its click-obfuscation strategy is intentionally adversarial and not a general creator-funding solution. | open-source privacy browser extension | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Automattic | A private company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Jetpack, and other open-web services. Automattic gets real credit for supporting open-source and portable publishing infrastructure, but final control remains private and founder-centered rather than held by users, workers, or the public. | private open-web and publishing platform company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Brave | A private browser company offering a tracker-blocking browser, search, wallet features, AI features, and opt-in Brave Ads paid through Basic Attention Token. Brave is much better than surveillance-advertising browsers on privacy and product integrity, but it remains a centrally controlled private ad platform with crypto incentives rather than a user-governed commons. | private browser and advertising company | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | -1 | -1 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Debian Project | A volunteer open-source operating-system project governed by a constitution, elected project leadership, and a social contract for free software. Debian Project scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | open-source project | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Exhaustive (AI) | 10 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Electronic Frontier Foundation | A donor-funded digital-rights nonprofit defending privacy, free expression, encryption, and user rights through litigation, advocacy, and public education. Electronic Frontier Foundation scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and ownership is comparatively aligned, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | nonprofit digital-rights organization | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Fedora Project | A community open-source operating-system project sponsored by Red Hat, with formal project governance and free-software production. Fedora Project scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | open-source project | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | GNOME Foundation | A membership-based free-software foundation supporting GNOME, contributor infrastructure, and privacy-respecting personal computing. GNOME Foundation scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | membership-based free-software foundation | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | KDE e.V. | A German nonprofit association representing KDE and supporting free, privacy-preserving software and contributor-governed project infrastructure. KDE e.V. scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | member association for free software | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Kubernetes | A large open-source container-orchestration project, with project and steering-committee governance and major cloud-infrastructure public value. Kubernetes scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | open-source project | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Lemmy | An open-source federated link-aggregation and discussion project often used as a Reddit alternative. Lemmy scores well because AGPL code, self-hosting, ActivityPub federation, and community-controlled instances reduce platform-owner extraction, though governance is less institutionally mature than the strongest cooperatives or nonprofits. | open-source federated forum software | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Linux Foundation | A nonprofit open-source consortium supporting major infrastructure projects, with public software value and substantial corporate member influence. Linux Foundation lands in the middle because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and the product or service has real integrity and practical value, but limited stakeholder control prevents a stronger rating. | nonprofit consortium | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Mastodon | A nonprofit open-source project and federated social-network ecosystem built around ActivityPub-compatible servers rather than one global platform owner. Mastodon scores well because open source code, nonprofit stewardship, federation, and user exit rights structurally limit extraction and private-government power. | nonprofit open-source social network project | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Developed (AI) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Mozilla Foundation | A nonprofit and taxable-subsidiary ecosystem behind Firefox and open-web work, still useful as a public-interest browser alternative but weakened by search/ad revenue dependence, centralized governance, product bloat, sponsored surfaces, and trust failures. Mozilla Foundation remains weak because of person-dependent governance, material opacity, and surveillance capture, even where the product or service has practical value. | nonprofit | High confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Exhaustive (AI) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | -1 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | OpenStreetMap Foundation | A democratic open-data foundation supporting OpenStreetMap, free geographic data, and community-governed mapping infrastructure. OpenStreetMap Foundation scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | democratic open-data foundation | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Python Software Foundation | A membership nonprofit behind Python, PyPI, grants, and public-good infrastructure for the Python software ecosystem. Python Software Foundation scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and the model leaves more value with stakeholders, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | open-source nonprofit foundation | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Software Freedom Conservancy | A free-software nonprofit providing fiscal sponsorship, legal support, and compliance work for public-interest open-source projects. Software Freedom Conservancy scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and ownership is comparatively aligned, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | free-software nonprofit fiscal sponsor | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| No special badge | No vegan or vegetarian badge | Tor Project | A nonprofit privacy-technology project stewarding Tor, providing free and open-source anonymity tools for private and censorship-resistant internet access. Tor Project scores well because the model leaves more value with stakeholders and ownership is comparatively aligned, and no current penalty outweighs that structure. | nonprofit privacy-technology project | Medium confidence (AI) | Not separately reviewed. | Partial (AI) | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | None found0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |