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WOT pulled from Firefox, Chrome
« on: December 18, 2016, 11:27:20 PM »
From life-hacker (Last month):
Web Of Trust Extension Pulled From Firefox, Chrome After Privacy Concerns
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    The German newspaper FAZ managed to get a statement from Mozilla about the removal. According to the statement, Web of Trust was pulled because it violated add-on guidelines, and specifically transparency in regards to the add-on's collection of user data.
So if I want to see how WOT rates any web site I have to use my Android tablet?



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Re: WOT pulled from Firefox, Chrome
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2016, 11:48:00 PM »
Web of trust collects personal information about it's users and sells it to third party advertising companies. Probably best not to use it at all, to be honest.
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Re: WOT pulled from Firefox, Chrome
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2016, 01:26:48 PM »
How strange they named it "Web Site of Trust".
Too bad.  It seemed like a  very good idea.

I have an old smartphone I seldom use. I think I will remove the SIM and clear out all the personal data and  use it only when I want to use the WOT plug in.   :P