Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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11/05/16 03:19 PM
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Well, that's certainly discouraging. Thanks, Donald.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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Sandy, it definitely does its job as a warning about not clicking on dangerous or potentially dangerous sites. But according to the article, WOT also collects a LOT of your personal information. That tells me they are not to be trusted... I've used them for years and never had any issues and I don't know that they collect any more about me than does Google or Facebook. But it's still disturbing.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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11/15/16 12:45 AM
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No, I didn't, oldbroad. Nor will I remove it on the computers of certain people that I installed it on. They are blind sheep on the internet and WOT has saved several bad clicks. We are tracked by so many things now, I'd have to completely removed myself from the internet if I got rid of all of them. I must say I DO find what the PCMAG article said very, very disturbing though because it indicates the tracking is specific to you as an individual.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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Is there no WOT for Surface pro?
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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WOT is not for a device - it is an add-on for a browser. If you are using the Edge browner, it does not allow any add-ons except for a very few select ones. If you use IE, Firefox or Chrome, you can use WOT.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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can't find a download.. all get is this: 404. That’s an error.
The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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can't find a download.. all get is this: 404. That’s an error. Can't find a download for what? What URL are you trying to get to?
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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https://www.mywot.com/ for one... no download option on it
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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You are right - there is no download option. I'm wondering if they are forcing you to register first before you can download. Not a good sign...
What website gives you the 404 error? Which browser are you trying to get the add-on for?
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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I am registered and major geeks https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bhmmomiinigofkjcapegjjndpbikblnpchrome thanks Drac.... just read your post.. looks like they are in the process of fixing the issues
Last edited by Winfrey; 11/15/16 12:16 PM.
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Re: Web Of Trust' Browser Extension Cannot Be Trusted
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Went to the WOT forums and found this posted at the top... moved my edit on the last post to be after yours, Winfrey. Look at the gobbledegook in that URL, Winfrey! No wonder you get a 404 error! Dear users,
Thank you for your patience. We apologize for our delayed public reply and any anxiety this incident has caused. It has taken us some time to understand what has happened and how best to ensure we protect our users.
We take our obligations to you very seriously. While we deployed great effort to remove any data that could be used to identify individual users, it appears that in some cases such identification remained possible, albeit for what may be a very small number of WOT users.
Of course, if the data allows the identification of even a small number of WOT users, we consider that unacceptable, and will be taking immediate measures to address this matter urgently as part of a full security assessment and review.
Additionally, after Mozilla notified us that they were removing the WOT add-on from their store (pending responses to a set of questions / proposed changes they sent to us), we voluntarily removed the WOT add-on from all other platforms, including the Chrome store, in order to resolve this matter properly and comprehensively.
To that end, we are taking the following steps:
Reviewing our privacy policy to determine which changes need to be made in order to enhance and ensure that our users privacy rights are properly addressed.
For the user browsing data used to enable WOT’s website reputation service, we intend to provide users the ability to opt-out from having such data saved in our database or shared. This opt-out will be available from the settings menu, as we want to provide each user with a clear choice at all times.
For people who agree to let us use their browsing data in order to support WOT, we will implement a complete overhaul of our data ‘cleaning’ process, to optimize our data anonymization and aggregation objectives to minimize any risk of exposure for our users.
We will spend the coming weeks making the changes to WOT which will ensure we are back on the right track. You, our community of users are the real power behind WOT and we will continue serving you as such.
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