Reviewer Recommendation
The reviewer recommendation is an entirely subjective viewpoint of the reviewer. No information provided in the recommendation actually impacts the product score at all.
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| None | No subjective opinion given. It could be that the reviewer feels the score speaks for itself, they have no real opinion on the product or possibly the reviewer doesn't have site authority to use this field. |
| Use with Confidence | The product has no automatic ties to risky or gossipy functions. There are also no offerings that subject UGD to gossipy exposure or such exposure is locked down or contains and obvious warning at a minimum. |
| Use with Care | The product has no automatic ties to risky or gossipy functions. Opportunities may exist to interact with risky or gossipy services, but this is a feature that must be enabled and it is inherently obvious when such functionality is being invoked. |
| Use with Caution | The product is generally safe for use and made available by a reasonably trustworthy company. There are however subtle pitfalls in the way of products, services that could expose one's information to gossipy practices feeding manipulative profiling without warning or customer knowledge. |
| Avoid | Socially irresponsible company/product whose fundamental functionality expose customer UGD to gossipy practices feeding manipulative profiling without warning or customer knowledge. |
Why?
One might ask why provide a subjective opinion when so much effort has gone to creating an objective score. The information is being provided to offset situations that simply cannot be accurately reflected via objective scoring. Subjective data offsets anomalies like:
- A company that has demonstrated reasonable measures to protect customer privacy in the overall, but doesn't represent themselves well under the given criteria.
- Everything in the category looks terrible in score so that nobody would even consider taking advantage of the offerings of the category. The recommendation is a way of conveying that it is just the nature of products in the category to be risky, or that industry hasn't come woken up to communicating the benefits of their privacy practices.
- A recommendation can also be a way of indicating that a high score is simply a charade by a company that knows how to look good on paper.