WOT and TrafficLight together

Web of Trust and TrafficLight running together.
Overkill?
Good complement for one another?
Both are add-ons, or extensions.
I'm interested in what my Wilders brethren have to say.

 

Its not overkill but you will find that TrafficLight will give a green light to many sites that WOT gives a red light. If you believe in the WOT ratings then TrafficLight doesn't add much, however, I liked having both. I quit using TrafficLight because it won't work with NoScript and I decided to stay with NoScript.

 

I have used both together w/o any conflicts. WOT good at site ratings but weak at new malicious sites while TL fills that gap.

 

What you have is far from over kill.

 

Thanks for the replies.
These two run nicely together, with no performance hits that I can determine.
I think, as was pointed out, one might pick up where the other leaves off.
Pretty cool free tools, the way I see it.

 

Sounds good. I'll add TL now, see if I get any slowdown.

edit: working fine so far, might be a microsecond difference, going to keep it as a FF add-on

 

WOT =Web Of idioTs

 

Acronymic license?

 

Do you use Sandboxie that will limit/block anything that exploits the browser. You have Vipre analyzing everything it touches your computer. You have the MBAM Pro which has an excellent web filter. I believe that only the trafficlight or WOT would be enough.

 

Using both here and no slowdown/problems.

 

Complements (and different technologies), but watch out for false positives (especially WOT)

 

What do you do to determine false positives with WOT, J_L?

 

It being the only one rating red. No comments, outdated, or just plain wrong ones. No malicious behaviour detected by any other source or myself. Good reputation outside of WOT spammers.

 

+1
Sandboxie, Vipre & MBAM Pro are already enough...

 

MBAM web filter is nothing but IP blocking, and judging by what many say and report, it's full of false positives, because MBAM blocks by IP and not domain name.

Sandboxie will do nothing against phishing and fraudulent websites.

That said, I prefer TrafficLight. I just wish that PhishTank (the same guys behind OpenDNS) would create browser extensions (I'm thinking about Chromium lol) that would fetch warnings from their database.

I'd rather use such PhishTank extension over WOT.

 

Hi m00nbl00d,

But WOT does use listings of phishing sites from PhishTank (though their primary source of knowledge is ratings from users).

 

I know that. I just meant that I'd rather use a PhishTank extension over WOT.

I don't care about what WOT other partners say or what their users say. I trust the service PhishTank, the same way I trust Open DNS. I don't personally use Open DNS, because I prefer malicious domain blocking from Norton DNS.

So, an extension from the PhishTank folks would be welcome, IMHO.

 

I took TrafficLight off. It seemed okay, except for that little tab dealie that they thought should always hang down into the main browser window.

 

Regardless of the possible limitations or possible problems with WOT it is still a pretty good extension. It's saved my bacon a few times over the couple of years I have used it. I haven't quite lost faith in it yet.