Reviews for Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating
Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating by WOT Services
605 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Szaboo Ferenc, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by jarod, 4 years agoРаніше активно використовував цей додаток, сьогодні планував його встановити і почав шукати, натрапив на опис у Wikipedia:
WOT Services has partnerships with Mail.ru, Facebook, hpHosts, LegitScript, Panda Security, Phishtank, GlobalSign and TRUSTe.
In November 2016, a German state media investigation found that WOT Services had secretly collected personal user details and sold or licensed this information to unidentified third-party businesses and entities for data monetization purposes. This activity breached the privacy rules and guidelines set by several browsers. As a result, the browser add-on was involuntarily removed from Mozilla Firefox's add-on store, and voluntarily removed from other browsers' add-on/extension stores. WOT was eventually reinstated.
On November 1, 2016, German public broadcasting station NDR reported the results of an investigation by in-house journalists, showing that WOT collected, recorded, analyzed and sold user-related data to third parties. The data obtained was traceable to WOT and could be assigned to specific individuals, despite WOT's claim that user data was anonymized. The NDR investigative journalism report was based on freely available sample data, and revealed that sensitive private information of more than 50 users could be retrieved. The information included websites visited, account names and email addresses, potentially revealing user illnesses, sexual preferences and drug consumption. The journalists also reconstructed a media company's confidential revenue data, and details about an ongoing police investigation.
German media contacted WOT Services with the results of the investigation prior to publication of the report. WOT declined to comment on the findings.
Тому ні, дякую, зашкварний додаток я не буду ставити.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey Jarod, thanks for reaching out.
WOT has taken the necessary steps to make sure we're aligned with all relevant privacy policies, including GDPR and CCPA and the product today is a completely different from the product this article realted to in 2016. If you have any additional concerns, please contact us directly at support.mywot.com and we'll be happy to answer any question. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14845831, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13303451, 4 years agoGreat addon, really; i give few stars since sometimes it appears too heavy blocking the browser.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey,
Thanks for your feedback!
Our team has made some significant improvements to to the extension.
Please make sure that the WOT extension you have installed on your browser is update to our latest version (20210114), which is now available at the extension store.
If you are still encountering any issues, please let us know! - Rated 5 out of 5by Bagherah, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16520744, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alex Papon, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by гена, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5533826, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by icstars, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15670022, 4 years agoUma ótima extensão! Sites que decepcionaram mt gente serão desclassificados e isso serve de dica para sabermos sobre fraudes ou coisas fakes que entramos achando ter um conteúdo e acaba tendo outro ou nem tendo conteúdo, só propagandas para lucrar. Com ele vc ao entrar no site, clica no ícone da extensão e já pode classificar e escrever uma nota sobre o site. Isso serve de ajuda pra outros que entrarem já saberem algo sobre o site tb. Ex: Sites com mt propaganda e que aparece escrito clique aqui pra prosseguir, mas na verdade é outro botão ou link que deve clicar para ir para o local verdadeiro, podem ter uma descrição na extensão ensinando onde clicar, se não tiver, vc mesmo cria e ajuda outros a entenderem o site depois de vc! Em um clique apenas vemos vários comentários em diversas línguas sobre o site aberto. Teste em sites grandes como twitch ou youtube e verão o que digo!
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for this great review, we truly appreciate it and we're glad that WOT is keeping you safe online! - Rated 5 out of 5by Digitalbil, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13434351, 4 years agoVery biased ratings on any site that is conservative. Liberal sites are highly rated. I was checking out a site that I am familiar with because WOT rated them as a suspect site and I wanted to see why. There were 8 ratings, 6 five star and 2 one star. The average rating was THREE STAR. How was that calculated? The site was rated Yellow based on two derogatory tags and when I tried to rate it I could not access the rating system to comment. This site has been hijacked and is untrustworthy.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey,
In order to be transparent and enable our users to form an independent, unbiased opinion, websites that are of a political nature (on any side of the political map) are tagged on our Scorecard as “Opinions, religion, politics”.
In addition, both WOT users and our advanced algorithms review websites and scan them for malware or malicious activity in order to provide protection against viruses and privacy matters.
Since WOT is a platform powered by crowdsourcing, we enable various opinions and ratings - everyone’s opinion counts and is taken into consideration.
WOT does not interfere in the discourse and does not add, edit or remove comments unless they violate our community guidelines, which can be found here: https://www.mywot.com/guidelines.
We encourage you to engage in the discourse and share your comments and reviews with the community. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13523508, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16321843, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fowden, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jsamp51, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 12bytes, 4 years agonothing but censorship disguised as something useful - absolute garbage
and if that isn't enough to dissuade you, read their "privacy" policy
to the developer:
users, as you well know, do not generally form unbiased opinions, something that can only be done through research and a lack of confirmation bias - thus, since this same user base is asked to vet content, WOT is useless at best ... of course i'm sure your shareholder(s) will disagreeDeveloper response
posted 4 years agoHey eyecu,
In order to be transparent and enable our users to form an independent, unbiased opinion, websites that are of a political nature (on any side of the political map) are tagged on our Scorecard as “Opinions, religion, politics”.
In addition, both WOT users and our advanced algorithms review websites and scan them for malware or malicious activity in order to provide protection against viruses and privacy matters.
Since WOT is a platform powered by crowdsourcing, we enable various opinions and ratings - everyone’s opinion counts and is taken into consideration.
WOT does not interfere in the discourse and does not add, edit or remove comments unless they violate our community guidelines, which can be found here: https://www.mywot.com/guidelines.
We encourage you to engage in the discourse and share your comments and reviews with the community. - Rated 1 out of 5by Segoro, 4 years agoИногда такое впечатление, что люди отзывов в интернете совсем не читают)) Это вредоносное дополнение, не в смысле программной безопасности, а вашей конфиденциальности. Будьте осторожны, нельзя доверять.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHey Segoro, thanks for reaching out.
We are sorry to hear you feel this way about WOT. We have taken the necessary steps to make sure we're aligned with all relevant privacy policies, including GDPR and CCPA. If you have any additional concerns, please contact us directly at support.mywot.com and we'll be happy to answer any question. - Rated 5 out of 5by José Juvenil Wille, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14384804, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Márcio Maciel, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Prazzity, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16179389, 4 years ago