Support this add-on with a recommendation:
Do you want to know which website you can trust? The Web of Trust extension protects you from malicious websites by connecting the browser to the WOT database of of community-generated ratings for websites regarding their trustworthiness. With this plugin enabled you will receive a warning whenever you come across a website with a low trust ranking so you can surf secure.
The trust ranking includes several factors such as the general trustworthiness, vendor’s reliability, handling of the user’s privacy as well as children’s safety. If you decide to sign up to the WOT community you can rate websites yourself to warn other users about illegitimate websites. But even if you choose not to become an active member, with this extension enabled you will be protected from websites that distribute malware, sell your private data or are fraudulent in general. By default, a warning is triggered when a when the user visits a website with a poor reputation rating. This trust-score is based on the community-ratings which includes the number of users warning about a website by taking the reliability of each user-rating into account.
The innovative concept and well-engineered ranking system makes Web of Trust an important security enhancement and an essential extension for your browser.
Not bad, sometimes the rating is a little too harsh in my opinion
Cool! That’s really an improvement for my Chrome browser. Thanks for this plugin (I love that they are all free).
Web of trust is the great add on which alerts you on each and every malicious site and protects children. But I completely agree with your review. Thank you.
Google is really innovative and Google chrome is an example !!
Do you have even the slightest of idea that the top 4 add ons in the list are firefox addons?? chrome is a very constricted browser with and most of the extentions are copiesof firefox!!!
good idea. I need to know what is good what is not good. But somethimes I think that this program can make mistakes and where you visit all the times but this program says that is “bad idea. dont come in this website”. Nobody perfect…
This addon is some what different..
but its good …
Its extensions like these that make Chrome the best browser.
in my opinion would be very useful, because visitors do not want to get caught spam is usually
it’s a realy userfull for un especialy to safe our children from the net attack and make a trust relation between us and the world with web
I recently learned this plugin from a friend of mine, and she said that it is great. So, I tried it out and was pretty impressed by what is does. I really like having a gist on what site you are entering into. Try it yourselves.
WOT surely is an essential plugin for Chrome. Would never surf without it again.
Very good extension, which shows exactly which web sites are good or bad for visiting when searching for something with one of the search engines. My opinion is that this chrome plugin is very reliable.
This is a great plugin. Please tell everybody, if we work together we can make sure that all those scammy websites don’t take a chance!
Just as an explanation: I deducted 1.4 starts because it really got annoying after a while. Why does it warn me to visit poker websites??
This is one of my favoutite extension in Chrome, definitely makes browsing the internet much safer.
A word of warning: WoT is also abused as a political tool, since some narrow-minded hypocrites make it CENSOR your browsing against pages such as ones dealing with natural and alternative therapies, and other things they think we should not know about. Many will not recognize such false alarms but stay away from the page for fear of, e.g., viruses. This is a dangerous dictatorship attempt.
My advice, therefore: deactivate the popup, the colored WoT rings in Google and the tool bar are enough. Install in parallel 1-2 other safe browsing tools, such as AcAfee Site Advisor and/or Link Extend. Then you can compare and more easily find the false alarms.
I suggest to read
http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/17236-warnings-when-using-wot