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Post by kevin on Nov 22, 2016 0:35:33 GMT
Greetings geeks, long time no talk to. Just a heads up for anyone who might not know already, WOT have apparently been caught selling un-anonymised user data. As far as I can tell the extension has been removed from both Chrome and Firefox stores, which is how this came to my attention in the first place. thehackernews.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-addon.html
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Nov 22, 2016 15:26:15 GMT
Yep Kevin saw a couple of reports about this. I have uninstalled on my machines. WOT will never gain trust again because they broke the basic rules of TRUST. What I did like about WOT was the traffic light system, RED, ORANGE and GREEN, ideal for alerting anyone (and KIDS BTW) to perhaps a dodgy link.
I had a certain respect for some years but that has been totally rescinded.
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Post by Lighthouse on Nov 23, 2016 0:04:31 GMT
After you have removed it from the browser, you will then need to go into about:config, from there search both wot, and then weboftrust. Right click on every entry you find and click on reset. After the next restart it should be gone. There may be more entries but I would have to test for that.
The same goes for any add-ons/extensions you remove.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Dec 6, 2016 13:02:00 GMT
I still use it. I think it's mainly aimed at people that signed up as members which I never have so I'm not worried
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