Web of Trust (WOT) is an addon for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera that warns against unreliable websites. Reliability, privacy and child safety are assessed by the large user base of WOT. WOT works in all major browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Web of Trust has a huge community of users who judge websites for reliability, handling privacy and suitability for children. The large number of reviews creates a reasonably good picture of the reputation of websites.
If you visit unreliable websites you will see a warning window. Search results - Google, Bing, Yahoo! and also Twitter and Wikipedia - get a green (safe), orange (watch out) or red (unsafe) rating.
You can also give reviews to websites and help a Web of Trust. In addition to user reviews, WOT also uses other sources (such as PhishTank) to identify phishing sites and other unreliable sites.
A big advantage is that WOT is available for every browser under every operating system.
So it sounds good,BUT... Read the following carefully and write your own opinion about WOT:
In 2016, WOT was embroiled in a major scandal when the company turned out to have resold its users' surfing data to third parties and did not even anonymize this data properly, so that individual users could be traced. The anonymization was later correctly performed again, but trust in WOT was a dent.How reliable is WOT itself?
You can free download WOT Web of Trust and safe install the latest trial or new full version for Windows 10 (x32, 64 bit, 86) from the official site.
Devices: Desktop PC, Laptop (ASUS, HP, DELL, Acer, Lenovo, MSI), Ultrabook
OS: Professional, Enterprise, Education, Home Edition, versions: 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809