I have, for some time, had the WOT Firefox add-on installed on my desktop computer. Today I attempted to install it on my laptop but it looked so hideous I deleted it. If anyone has an add-on similar to WOT installed on their computer and would recommend it I would appreciate it. I looked through the Firefox add-on listing and the only one I recognized was BitDefenders Traffic Light which I know nothing about. So if any of our Forum Members can help me out I would appreciate it very much. As always I would thank you in advance. John
Avira Browser Safety, Bitdefender TrafficLight, McAfee WebAdvisor. ---------------------------- https://malwaretips.com/threads/mozilla-and-google-remove-wot-extension-from-store.65210/
I have been using Adguards desktop version and it includes their modified WOT. Same as poster 53 on malwaretips, who is also a Wilders member.
I deleted WOT because of its liberal bias in flagging sites, which made it completely untrustworthy in evaluating safe sites. Nowadays, I'm satisfied with Bit Defender's Traffic Light.
We are talking about two different versions here. And I have not had a issue with Adguards version . That is Adguard for Windows paid yearly sub. not the free crap. Plus I have added extra filters and removed some default install one I would never need.
Whatever you choose, make sure it is on the list of add-ons that will be converted to a WebExtension. Mozilla plans to drop legacy add-on support with the release of Firefox 57 (eta November 2017). I am not sure that Bit Defender Traffic Light will a WebExtension as it has not been updated as an add-on for a long time.
BitDefender Traffic Light slowed FF to a crawl on my machines and the site annotations only rarely showed up.
It's always confused me; what do most people use these addons for? I assume sites they purchase from? Seems a huge privacy risk handing over every site you visit to a company in exchange for a rating. You can look up ratings on the WOT website In the event you want to buy from a company you don't trust (how often is that?) and for general browsing security It adds little to nothing compared to an updated system/browser with security extensions. Wasn't WOT involved in a privacy scandal only 4 months or so back?
I don't believe there's a replacement for WOT, and using it is now out of the question; same with other real time ratings tools, they'll all want to phone home. What I do is using Flagfox, I right click the icon and chose WOT or SiteAdvisor, or others and check the sites on demand.
I think that a project that relies on user's rating of safety of a website is overcome nowadays. The human factor is what makes problems (regardless of industry). It was good 10 years ago when adblocking industry was in infancy but today there are sophisticated methods for evaluation of websites and their results are transformed then in to filter rules of adblocking solutions.
Totally agree, anyway who need reputation ratings from users unfathomably clueless about what is security for 90% of them...
uBlock is a decent replacement with its usage of hosts file. could also be used as an adware blocker. as i already wrote somewhere - ublock can replace a dozen other extensions with ease. uBo is complete independent, needs only a browser, no 3rd-party crap - and is high reliable!
I totally agree, I always considered these type of service to be a huge privacy risk. So the WOT scandal was nor surprise to me, weird that so many people are using this. I also wonder how services like "safe browsing" work, I suppose they don't monitor every site that you visit, never read anything bad about it. https://safebrowsing.google.com/
hi wot is back on firefox extension list https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/wot-safe-browsing-tool/ maybe they have fixed the privacy issue , what do you think?
