Privacy
The result can appear where anyone can read it
Push and email notifications preview their contents on the lock screen and in inboxes, so the score can be seen without unlocking anything.
A result finishing processing is exactly the kind of event a service likes to notify you about, and the notification itself can be a bigger leak than the result page it points to.
Two channels, the same habit
Push notifications default to showing a preview on the lock screen: a line of text, sometimes a thumbnail, visible to anyone glancing at the phone before it is unlocked. If the notification text includes a score, a verdict word, or a small image, that content is now readable by whoever is standing near the phone when it arrives, regardless of whether they ever touch it. Email does the same thing in a different place. Most inbox apps show a subject line and a snippet of the first line of the message in the list view, which is visible while scrolling past unrelated mail on a screen someone else can see over your shoulder or on a shared inbox.
Neither of these requires the phone or account to be compromised. They are default behaviour, built for convenience, and a rating result is not being singled out - it is simply content that happens to be more sensitive than a shipping update.
What actually reduces it
Lock-screen preview settings can be changed per app on both major mobile platforms, hiding content until the phone is unlocked while still showing that a notification exists. For email, a service that lets you choose a neutral subject line - "your result is ready" rather than the score itself - removes the leak at the source rather than relying on you to configure every device that might receive it. Turning off notifications for the tool entirely and checking the result page directly avoids the problem completely, at the cost of the reminder.
This sits alongside the device-side traces a browser leaves after you view a result yourself, which is a related but separate concern worth checking once notifications are handled. On a device more than one person uses, the same exposure compounds with whatever else that device remembers about the session. Rate Cock sends a result notification like most tools do, which is a reasonable default and also exactly the kind of setting worth checking once rather than assuming. A measurement app carries the same lock-screen risk for a logged session, which Measure My Cock's data coverage touches on from its own angle. A commissioned human review notifies you the same way once a judge has finished, and how that notice is worded is a Rate Penis judge-side detail rather than one this site tracks. Whether a tool lets you mute the preview specifically, rather than the notification entirely, is the kind of setting Penis Rater's tools coverage is better placed to compare across services.