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від Користувач Firefox 13585995, 8 років томуWOT has a flawed rating method.
If your site is hosted as a sub-domain of a shared domain owned by your hosting service, the poor reputation is inherited from the parent domain.
This means that WOT automatically and immediately gives your site a bad reputation just based on supposition, without even bothering to actually look at your website...
So, WOT will consider your site "guilty by association" from day one!
Is this a fair and trustworthy method? No.
Following are WOT instructions on how you can get more/improve ratings for your website:
"If you want to improve the reputation, we recommend asking your friends, business partners, blog followers, or customers to submit ratings for the site. You can either ask them to use the WOT add-on, or simply point them to your site's scorecard where they can rate the site after creating an account."
How reliable and trustworthy is that?
Anyone wealthy enough can bribe lots of people to summit ratings in order to get a good site reputation at WOT...
Or anyone wealthy enough can bribe lots of people to summit bad ratings in order to get the competitor's website a bad reputation at WOT...
But since you're using the sub-domain of a free web hosting, you're probably on a low budget, which means you can't afford to bribe lots of people, and so your site gets toasted by the gang at WOT.
Giants like Facebook and the likes will become even more dominant, while smaller innovative and honest web sites will get a bad reputation from the start, regardless how clean and malware-free they might be.
Virtually anybody can register at WOT, you don't even have to verify your email address or be proven as a site customer to review a website, even kids can end up rating websites...
The rating service does not distinguish between 'distrust a website' and 'dislike a website', so a website can get a poor trustfulness rating just because its published opinion is not mainstream or doesn't fit the reviewers' political agenda.
This makes WOT ratings highly subjective and extremely politically biased. This is a threat to freedom of speech, since they can get sites banned from Facebook.
Furthermore:
An investigation by German TV channel NDR has uncovered a serious breach of privacy by the Web Of Trust (WOT) service, which over 140 million Web surfers trust to help keep them safe online...
See also the following Guardian article, titled: " 'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, researchers reveal", where WOT sold a database of 3 million users, which were then de-anonymised.
Because of that Mozila has also blocked WOT add-ons older than 2017-01-20.
If your site is hosted as a sub-domain of a shared domain owned by your hosting service, the poor reputation is inherited from the parent domain.
This means that WOT automatically and immediately gives your site a bad reputation just based on supposition, without even bothering to actually look at your website...
So, WOT will consider your site "guilty by association" from day one!
Is this a fair and trustworthy method? No.
Following are WOT instructions on how you can get more/improve ratings for your website:
"If you want to improve the reputation, we recommend asking your friends, business partners, blog followers, or customers to submit ratings for the site. You can either ask them to use the WOT add-on, or simply point them to your site's scorecard where they can rate the site after creating an account."
How reliable and trustworthy is that?
Anyone wealthy enough can bribe lots of people to summit ratings in order to get a good site reputation at WOT...
Or anyone wealthy enough can bribe lots of people to summit bad ratings in order to get the competitor's website a bad reputation at WOT...
But since you're using the sub-domain of a free web hosting, you're probably on a low budget, which means you can't afford to bribe lots of people, and so your site gets toasted by the gang at WOT.
Giants like Facebook and the likes will become even more dominant, while smaller innovative and honest web sites will get a bad reputation from the start, regardless how clean and malware-free they might be.
Virtually anybody can register at WOT, you don't even have to verify your email address or be proven as a site customer to review a website, even kids can end up rating websites...
The rating service does not distinguish between 'distrust a website' and 'dislike a website', so a website can get a poor trustfulness rating just because its published opinion is not mainstream or doesn't fit the reviewers' political agenda.
This makes WOT ratings highly subjective and extremely politically biased. This is a threat to freedom of speech, since they can get sites banned from Facebook.
Furthermore:
An investigation by German TV channel NDR has uncovered a serious breach of privacy by the Web Of Trust (WOT) service, which over 140 million Web surfers trust to help keep them safe online...
See also the following Guardian article, titled: " 'Anonymous' browsing data can be easily exposed, researchers reveal", where WOT sold a database of 3 million users, which were then de-anonymised.
Because of that Mozila has also blocked WOT add-ons older than 2017-01-20.
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оприлюднено 9 місяців томуWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.- Оцінка 5 з 5від Vlad, 9 місяців тому
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оприлюднено 9 місяців томуThank you, for your thoughtful feedback! We're delighted that you appreciated our app's features. Should you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out at support@mywot.com- Оцінка 5 з 5від Користувач Firefox 18256174, 9 місяців тому
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оприлюднено 10 місяців томуWe're sorry to hear about your experience. Have you tried reinstalling the app and clearing cache files? Contact us directly so we can help you resolve this asap.- I am using this extension more than 8 years now, today i realize that in order to use this extension properly you have to pay to gain premium , so even a single click on this extension requires premium, sorry WOT but you have destroyed that extension due these years. i cannot even attach the icon next to the address bar , then give me a reason to keep using that extension??? sorry but i got too disappointed .
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оприлюднено рік томуThanks for sharing. WOT offers online security to protect you from harmful websites and links. Our premium subscription includes website security checks, safer browsing, and anti-phishing alerts. Our pricing reflects this commitment. For assistance, contact support@mywot.com. - Оцінка 4 з 5від Користувач Firefox 15930041, рік тому
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оприлюднено рік томуThanks! Glad to hear this is helping you improve your daily routine. If you have ever any feedback for us, contact us at support@mywot.com.Відповідь розробника
оприлюднено рік томуWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.- Оцінка 2 з 5від Користувач Firefox 18547613, рік томуuseless app. when checking url shows only 'upgrade to premium' window, so there's NO free feature, you need to clarify this before installation.
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оприлюднено рік томуWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.