THE RAKE

A transparency project, scoring tech companies on how well their interests align with yours.

Latest report

Spotify
Jun 1, 2026Extractive
Spotify37/100
A streaming platform whose margin improvements are structurally achieved by reducing creator compensation, subordinating user interests to advertising relationships, and operating the most dark-pattern-laden subscription cancellation flow in independent testing.

Previous reports

TikTok
May 20, 2026Adversarial
TikTok
19/100
A social media platform whose business model structurally requires the addiction its own internal documents confirm it engineered.
Substack
May 13, 2026Compromised
Substack
52/100
Substack's core revenue model is genuinely aligned with creator success, but a quiet pivot to advertising, a data breach, and a hands-off approach to extremist content complicate the picture.