If there was a badge that indicates you're not tracked, it would affect my behaviour when choosing a software service.<p>If big enough user group became aware of this, maybe it would add pressure for larger corporations to think about their users' privacy
The Free Software Foundation's "Respects Your Freedom" certification program [1] seems related.<p>The FSF's definition of freedom here might not be quite what everyone has in mind, but the program is worth looking at and considering.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom" rel="nofollow">https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-f...</a>
The F-Droid store on Android does that.<p>If nothing is mentioned, the application does not track.<p>For applications with tracking, a tracking anti-feature label is shown under the section "This app has features you may not like".<p>Other labels exist, like "has non-free addons", or "the app contains non-free parts upstream".<p>For an example of such a label: <a href="https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/</a><p>It makes me think that a catalog like OpenFoodFacts but for software with such anti-features listed could be an idea.
I like it!<p>Badge or not. I believe and hope that we will see less tracking in the future. Consumers will change this directly and indirectly through policy.
This would be great. I'm in the process of putting together a blog post that explains that the reason our software isn't free (like many other browser plugins) is that we're not doing lousy stuff with your browsing history.