Austrian Team Launches Free EU Website Sovereignty Audit Tool
By
cmkr
Sat on the counter overnight. Well past its best.
Summary
A two-person Austrian team created a free EU independence check tool for websites that analyzes Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs and other dependencies to provide a sovereignty score from 0-100. They posted their audit on Hacker News where it received overwhelming attention, spending 3 hours on the front page. The critical tech community provided feedback that they launched too early with some imprecise results, which the team took to heart and worked through nights to revise and improve the audit.
Key quotes
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For a small two-person team from Austria, that's like a thing: HN is probably the most critic tech community in the world. The sharpest minds in tech, who find every edge case.
The verdict: We launched too early. Some results were imprecise.
We took the feedback to heart. Worked through nights. Revised the audit, improved it.
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