Session

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Session's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 449 ms.
• Security2.8 / 51 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.

Not enough discussion yet: 9 classified comments from 3 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

• Positive

  “Sometime last year I tried Session and while the idea sounds great it needs a lot more attention before I can use it in anger - but I'm a fan of the idea.”

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• Positive

  “session team are not nazis. they do good work - creating tools useful for human rights folk who need anonymity and security.”

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• Critical

  “Session does all those things. The political view on cryptocurrency that causes you to label it as a bad thing means you blanket category something that adds a lot of features to session. I think tors uptake in general…”

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• Critical

  “[0] So for Session, I am unfortunately also sceptical on them as well, I would say they are arguably worse since their project is embedded within cryptocurrencies and it won't be long until they force their Loki/Oxen…”

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