Ecommerce & Payments:

The weakest area is the extension layer: payment plugins, analytics, ads, and hosted add-ons can all widen the store's privacy footprint.

WooCommerce is strongest where store owners can manage exports, erasure requests, and customer-data handling directly from the admin side.

The weakest area is still tracking and data spread across storefront analytics, marketing tools, apps, and long-lived customer records.

Shopify is strongest where merchants can manage exports, app permissions, store operations, and customer-data workflows from one admin surface.

Its weakest area is still tracking around account and web usage, plus the unavoidable exposure that comes with payment and fraud data.

Stripe is strongest where businesses can manage roles, connected accounts, exports, and privacy requests through a mature admin surface.

BigCommerce is weakest on ads and tracking because cookie-based tracking remains part of the product or marketing site and ad personalization or marketing measurement still shows up.

BigCommerce gives users more direct privacy control than its other categories, especially around account settings, deletion, and privacy requests.

The weakest area is the surrounding tracking and profiling layer built from payments, merchants, devices, and web activity.

PayPal is strongest where users can manage privacy settings, data requests, connected merchants, and account-level permissions directly.

The weakest area is the combined shopping profile built from purchases, searches, devices, Alexa connections, and cross-service ad signals.

Amazon is strongest where users can manage ad preferences, browsing history, device links, deletion requests, and account-level privacy choices.

Facebook Marketplace is weakest on ads and tracking because ad personalization or marketing measurement still shows up.

Facebook Marketplace gives users more direct privacy control than its other categories, especially around account deletion.