Reviews for Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating
Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating by WOT Services
142 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14072894, 6 years agoWeb of Trust CAN'T BE TRUSTED, DON'T USE IT AS U ARE A MOZILLA FIREFOX USER.
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BLOCK IT NOW.
https://www.mywot.com/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14065274, 6 years ago"Web of Trust Sells Your Browsing History, Uninstall It Now"
LifeHacker.com - https://lifehacker.com/web-of-trust-sells-your-browsing-history-uninstall-it-1788667989 - Rated 1 out of 5by SandpaperWasteland, 6 years agoWoT's "Active Protection" actively tracks and links your IP address to what you type on search engines, your web history, then "distributes" (or sells as some websites have warned) this information directly to others.
Taken directly from their Privacy Policy: "When you install and use the WOT app or WOT extension, we also collect from you automatically... Internet Protocol Address...Search engine results page (keyword, order/index of results, link of result, title, description, ads); web pages visited and time stamp of the visit;"
This obvious breach of privacy mingled with the fact that they were caught red-handed in selling it is UNACCEPTABLE. - Rated 1 out of 5by User, 6 years agoSays it protects you from spying, does spy you and sell your data:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36fe7txXhQ - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14038268, 6 years agoAside from the obvious deception: https://lifehacker.com/web-of-trust-sells-your-browsing-history-uninstall-it-1788667989
We need something that gives expert warnings based on what experts detect, not community as in every person who thinks they know something when in reality they know less than nothing.
Yeah, This addon is bad for multiple reasons. I used it long ago, but one day I decided it was not worth using beyond even the deception above that they did.
PS, duckduckgo removed wot from their engine so yeah... its no lie. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14012454, 6 years agoThis site almost completely relies on community opinion, and that opinion's honesty, for its results. There is little fact checking done here since anyone can go to their site, enter a web address and rate it without posting a review or logging in. I would be very careful to trust this service's info without manually fact checking it yourself. I know that doing so defeats the purpose for this service, but that's how untrustworthy I think this service is. Anyone (using this service) can give a site a bad rating without it being crosschecked by someone before it's posted. Even if the site deserved the rating or not. A system like this is easily manipulable, and should be taken with the understanding that there is no guarantee for accuracy.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoWOT does in fact rely on our community for ratings and reviews, but that is our strength. It's not accurate to say that "anyone" can influence a site's ratings. We use a reliability algorithm that only allows trustworthy users to influence a site's ratings, which greatly increases the quality of our ratings. The system is actually built to prevent manipulation like you're describing. Thanks for your review! - Rated 1 out of 5by HedgehogInTheCPP, 6 years agoAdditional security, personal blacklist, but too slow and resource consuming.
Дополнительная безопасность, личный чёрный список, но слишком медленная работа и большое потребление ресурсов. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12343667, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Shahnewaz Ahmed, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13801775, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Yassine Daoudi, 6 years agoI can login in the original website, but not the extension, I can't stay connected in firefox and chrome, i can't even login on any browser with this add-on, so, it's a big problem for me .
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13787392, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13772382, 6 years agoAfter leaving a candid but respectful and cautious review on an alternative health website, my account was blocked.
This health website was safe and offered an alternative treatment that helped me. Nothing in my post was abusive and I included a disclaimer at the end of the review in case anyone mistakenly thought I stepped in something. Bang. Account blocked after 5+ years of use.
Strangely, three negative reviews seething with abusive, foul and specious language were posted against this same health website and its owner. Their accounts were not blocked.
Could these people be in alliance with pharmaceutical companies? Hmmmm..... That was a question and not a direct attack on WOT, in case their staff are feeling a tad paranoid.
Not recommended. I feel WOT are not trustworthy, since they seem to monitor their users' activity in real time and they seem to censor ideas that may or may not be perceived as threatening to certain corporations.
I recommend trusting the reviews found on WOT only if you accept conventional propaganda. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12550056, 6 years agoон неработает у меня. оценки не ставит можно только на сайцте поставить но зачем тогда аддон нужен если можно на сайте потавить? и оценки там не верные.
- Rated 1 out of 5by kupid, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13431751, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by personas+mehr, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13725746, 6 years agoThe reviews and ratings of this website cannot be trusted since the service can be spammed and individual reviews are not vetted. What's more you're not protected against new websites that might be fraudulent.
Please see an independent review of this extension here:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/349328/web-of-trust-browser-extension-cannot-be-trusted - Rated 1 out of 5by KLJY, 6 years agoMostly useful. But its very easy to game this add-on to make misleading reputation. For example an owner of a site filled with virus could easily make multiple accounts of WOT and gives positive reviews about his site. Truly dangerous.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13647948, 6 years agoParental control is off, yet it goes crazy saying generic imgur links (MY OWN imgur links) are "not suitable for children". Super spammy