Vurdering for Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating
Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating av WOT Services
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- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 13168488, 6 år sidanWOT Services was caught and widely reported for taking whatever information people provided about themselves plus the sort of information about the ISP associated IP address people queried WOT from, regarding the trustworthiness of other Web sites. (Can you say "pernicious hypocrites"?)
I would suggest that anyone reading reviews of WOT here or elsewhere do a little research about the organization and what they were up to as of 2018, and quite possibly years before and now after they got caught.
You cannot say you have not been warned, repeatedly. I am merely conveying the same sort of bad news that several others have been posting for many months, and just got tired of seeing all the short, "WOT is wonderful!" reviews that do not even mention much less address the issue of how WOT was doing exactly the sort of thing they purported to be protecting (many not very Internet-savvy) people who went to them for advice on unsafe or unsavory sites lurking behind URLs they knew little about.
Hint: when any good or service that has been around awhile suddenly starts getting a lot of strong criticism for valid reasons, while any negative comments are constantly diluted by a steady stream of vapid reviews claiming the product is better than sliced bread, cuter than a week-old puppy, and might even bring peace to the world, end poverty, and cure cancer in the near future (OK, I am exaggerating -- a little), why would you trust them any more than you would some strange clown who was wandering around your neighborhood handing out candy to little kids?
Regards,
FractalZ - Vurdering: 1 av 5av The Puzzling Centaur, 6 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14558700, 6 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Irwan S, 6 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14388339, 6 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av boxfreind, 7 år sidanWhile the service this extension provides is indeed very helpful, the extension itself is in dire need of updating. Right now, it slows down Firefox substantially and hangs it up. I have stopped installing it on client's computers and will not be recommending it until this is remedied.
Svar frå utviklaren
posta 6 år sidanWe're sorry to hear that! We made several updates and improvements to solve this issue. If you think differently we'll be happy to hear from you via https://support.mywot.com/ - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14072894, 7 år sidanWeb of Trust CAN'T BE TRUSTED, DON'T USE IT AS U ARE A MOZILLA FIREFOX USER.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/web-of-discretion-when-not-to-trust-web-of-trust/
https://mywotlies.wordpress.com/
BLOCK IT NOW.
https://www.mywot.com/ - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14065274, 7 år sidan"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 - Vurdering: 1 av 5av SandpaperWasteland, 7 år sidanWoT'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. - Vurdering: 1 av 5av User, 7 år sidanSays it protects you from spying, does spy you and sell your data:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36fe7txXhQ - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14038268, 7 år sidanAside 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. - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 14012454, 7 år sidanThis 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.
Svar frå utviklaren
posta 7 år sidanWOT 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! - Vurdering: 1 av 5av HedgehogInTheCPP, 7 år sidanAdditional security, personal blacklist, but too slow and resource consuming.
Дополнительная безопасность, личный чёрный список, но слишком медленная работа и большое потребление ресурсов. - Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 12343667, 7 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Shahnewaz Ahmed, 7 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 13801775, 7 år sidan
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Yassine Daoudi, 7 år sidanI 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 .
- Vurdering: 1 av 5av Firefox user 13787392, 7 år sidan