Web of Trust (WOT) Add-on taken down by Chrome & Firefox


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    Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019
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    Web of Trust (WOT) Add-on taken down by Chrome & Firefox


    Five days ago and I just noticed...

    The Web Of Trust (WOT) add-on was removed silently by the popular web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox soon after it was reported on German media that the add-on ‘Web Of Trust’ collects and sells the browsing history of users to third-parties, without even bothering to anonymize the user data.

    Mozilla spokesman said,
    “Mozilla removes browser extensions when we find that extensions violate our guidelines for add-ons. We received complaints about ‘Web of Trust’, which are related to how transparent the add-on works.”
    WOT is one of the most trusted and popular add-ons used by millions of users worldwide to check the safety ratings of the websites. German news site recently reported that the add-on is malicious and can remotely execute the arbitrary commands on any web page browsed by the users including privileged browser pages.

    Source: Web of Trust (WOT) Add-on taken down by Chrome & Firefox
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    W7 home premium 32bit/W7HP 64bit/w10 tp insider ring
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    Yep posted about that in the news section couple days ago.

    Roy
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    Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019
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    Think I should get them merged?
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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    RE: Firefox WOT addon. I always preferred to use this:

    Bitdefender TrafficLight for Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox
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    Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019
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    I have that now for FF, any suggestions for IE11? I disabled WOT there.
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    You can use the installed version instead:

    EDIT: Removed the rest of this post and will PM you the link instead.

    Reason: Forum rules.
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