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Agreed, but they both have flaws. EFF had a big article posted about how evil social media trackers are posted right along side their twitter and facebook share buttons. I contacted them and asked them to follow their own guidelines and they replied they’d look into it. That was months ago.
As for Tor, a story under an old account called dirtfindr tells of them banning him or her on IRC for bringing up problems with their support of DDG. The chat log is posted there.
But like FSF in varying degrees of flawedness, their massive contributions far outweigh their oversights.
Edit: Here is another exmaple of EFF hypocrisy:
What I like about the FSF compared to the others is that they actually stick to their values. No compromises, you don't have to run any proprietary JS to view their site, etc.
They actually seem to practice what they preach