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"WOT: Web Of Thugs. Horrible!"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
nothing. I honestly cannot think of one single thing good about this scam.
Cons
Post a negative review of WOT and they will take you out. Google "WOT Review" and note that all the bad reviews get negative WOT ratings. Wow! Talk about silencing free speech.
This is a site that uses bully tactics to force other sites to comply. As a webmaster of my own site, I now have to "tiptoe" around the WOT community in fear that they will strike my site down. The sooner WOT is discredited, the better for all of us. Corrupt, despicable, and deplorable.Summary
the existence of WOT makes it harder to run a website because now we have to appease the WOT horde of cyber-bullies.
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"UNtrustworthy and biased"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
I don't think there is a single "pro". myWOT is good in theory, but executed poorly.
Cons
User based ratings by people that do not visit the site.
Forums created with lists of sites to rate poorly as a community.
Mass Rating Tool allows platinum users to rate 100 sites at a time, with the same rating, and with the same comment sites that they have never looked at or have knowledge of.
If your site ends up with a poor rating myWOT tells you to vote for it yourself, create a forum post asking for ratings, and to purchase their badge of trust. This info can be found in their FAQ, however, when myWOT is confronted saying that sounds like extortion, they state that the badge cannot be purchased until a site already has a green rating. They then will state that you need to raise the score on your own first. So then it sounds like ratings can be manipulated, but myWOT will assure you that ratings cannot be manipulated. Extremely confusing circle they present to site owners.Summary
Because of the evidence of forums where the most active users post lists of sites to rate poorly and the fact that myWOT states on the FAQ page regarding raising a low score, that one of the solutions is to purchase their badge, it raises two questions. Can myWOT be trusted with millions of users rating sites they don't trust? And are they being paid to rate the sites poorly since myWOT sells the "badges" to site owners as "Mafia/Mob protection" to keep a site rating green?
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"Can be unreliable, based on user selected model."
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
This is a quick and easy add on to see which sites have been rated as nefarious by other users of the WOT tool.
Cons
Because WOT is a user selected model, many folks who have a political ax to grind against a company will rate the web site as nefarious simply because they have political disagreements with the activities of the site-owning entity.
Summary
Because this tool is essentially driven by mod rule rather than a scientific appraisal of the tangible (virus, trojan, spam, etc.) risks of visiting a site, I will shop elsewhere.
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"Keeps Browsing safe"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
Easy as pie
Cons
None at all
Summary
Keeps my Browsing safe
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"WOT is not safe"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
Great concept.
Cons
Vulnerable to manipulation by hacks to denigrate sites they disagree with.
Summary
Sites with no commercial intention, malware and virus free, get trashed. Controversial opinions regarding social, environmental, medical and other issues get targeted and degraded unfairly.
When you think about, WOT, in its current form, is a dangerous threat to a free Internet. By giving it such a high rating, the editors of cNet have lost credibility. -
"Web of Trust is a scam, blackmail operation. Extortion."
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20111107
Pros
Web of Trust is being sued.
Cons
Pay or have your website marked as "dangerous" and lose Facebook visitors. Web of Trust practices extortion and large scale astroturf campaigns to protect themselves from scrutiny. Many results on Google for their lawsuit goes to their public relations drivel.
Rates many safe websites poorly without giving any clear recourse or explanation to website owners on their so-called "Reputation Scorecard" page. WoT profits from website owners spending money in an attempt to make websites more accessible again from Facebook after WoT defames them. This is extortion and Facebook is playing right into it to keep their users within their walled garden instead of following safe links to outside websites.Summary
The forums are extremely hostile to those who question WoT. For example, the companies suing WoT are referred to as "idiots", etc. - And many of the ratings are due to agendas and WOT does nothing to circumvent that. To give you an idea of the inanity, there's people with mottos such as "Truth is my b*tch" attacking websites they "don't like" instead of searching for malware or any other valid issue.
Another case and point, beware if you or any website you ever affiliate with say anything critical of Web of Trust. This site, mywotscam.com, is being slandered against because they are pointing out flaws with WoT (mywot.com). I'm seeing people at WoT saying mywotscam.com harbors malware, which is a libelous lie. I looked up mywotscam.com with security websites and it scanned 100% clean and safe.
For example, the riaa.org website as of 11-23-2011 is rated in such a way that many will consider the website to have issues with malware. WoT has labeled it a dangerous website with "Warning! This site has a poor reputation."
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/riaa.org
This is because the community has said they don't like the RIAA. Instead of rating the website on its true safety, they rate the organization based on opinion. I mean, I'm no fan of the RIAA, but I wouldn't LIE and give the false impression that their website is dangerous, etc.
WoT should warn people of malware, porn and scams on websites, but instead they would rather have honest people give them money to stop their fraudulent extortions. WOT is the scam to watch out for. Web of Trust is a scam. It's a Web of Lies.
Updated on Nov 23, 2011
This is the kind of bullying tactics you can expect from these hive mind cretins at WoT.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/mywotscam.com
Updated on Nov 23, 2011Last but not least, check out this. This is just one case of many similar accounts I've found.
I've edited for brevity but you can read the rest here:
http://complaintwire.org/Complaint.aspx/tqaGZ0CgeAByhQjOPaHCqQ
" .... What happens is someone can login to the WOT account, and rate a site as phishy or unsecure for absolutely no reason at all. When this happens, anytime a customer goes to your website, a large popup will occur stating this is an unsafe site, and you should not proceed. This is ridiculous since WOT does not have any means of checking to see if this information is infact accurate.
They just go off of that single rating input by a random person. Now, the only way to have this popup removed is to either buy their "Web of Trust Seal" which costs $451/year, or have tons of people sign up for an account in their system, which in turn will bring the company more revenue as well. ... " -
"WOT is a serious ripoff and SCAM UNRELIABLE SCAMMERS"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20110704
Pros
There are no pros to this unethical company.
Cons
WOT is a serious ripoff and SCAM. They don't display their phone number, don't answer problems with their rating system and are unresponsive. They are ruining legitimate businesses and something should be done about them. WOT is ONE BIG SCAM!
Summary
This is how the SCAM WORKS:
What happens is someone can login to the WOT account, and rate a site as phishy or unsecure for absolutely no reason at all. When this happens, anytime a customer goes to your website, a large popup will occur stating this is an unsafe site, and you should not proceed. This is ridiculous since WOT does not have any means of checking to see if this information is infact accurate.
They just go off of that single rating input by a random person. Now, the
only way to have this popup removed is to either buy their "Web of Trust Seal" which costs $451/year, or have tons of people sign up for an account in their system, which in turn will bring the company more revenue as well.
Here is there 'game', you complain, then the stop answering your emails, then you complain on their forum and they 'block your' name and password so your account is virtually locked. They don't respond to any questions, there is NO SUPPORT and the support there is doesn't assist but gives you wrong answers and the run-around. So like God, they block you off your account so you cannot even answer malicious statements left by other WOT users that are inaccurate. I hope this company is closed down and will line up to sign a lawsuit against them...
No phone number, no response from company they are NOT a WEB OF TRUST but a Website UNTrustworthy!!!!
I have never hated a company as badly as I hate this company. Non-Responsive, Ludicrous Ratings, Playing with people's livelihood and They don't even respond to a problem When They Are Wrong! I truly hate this company. Would love to do a joint lawsuit with other companies ruined by WOT the SCAM. -
"WOT blocks you from making comment about their practice"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20110704
Pros
At one point in time, there was, but now all perceived advantages have gone down the toilet.
Cons
WOT bans and blocks you when you raised the problem to them, but allows the trashing to go on by its members who attained Platinum level. They are just creating a party for their own inner circle members.
Summary
WOT is just an add-on crock posing as doing something good. That says a lot about WOT (mywot.com) where they silence Rookie members raising issues with their rating system. They are trying to defend and justify their practices on CNET, Mozilla and others and have been quite busy at that. I'm surprised all the negativities have not taken tolls on them. "What you sow is what you reap..."
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"The Worst Moderated Boards I Have Ever Seen"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20110704
Pros
I see no advantages to this site since their ratings have no moderation for accuracy.
Cons
Their boards are full of old copy and paste spam comments that go back years. It seems as if nobody moderates their boards. How could Facebook consider using such an unreliable system?
Summary
Mywot even provides users with a tool which allows users to leave the same copy and pasted comment on 100 sites at a time! Can you imagine a forum owner encouraging his users to leave copy and paste comments 100 at a time! Their boards are full of comment spam falsely accusing sites of having viruses and adult content. Here is the Mywot link where they talk about their mass comment tool made available to members:
http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Mass_rating_tool
Incredible that anybody even thinks about using this service. -
"Fairly effective but not totally trustworthy"
Version: WOT (Web of Trust) for Firefox 20110323
Pros
It is a simple and small add on that can alert you to a potentially bad site.
Cons
It's rated by other people such as yourself..so be prepared for some bias.
Summary
Because it is fairly non intrusive, I would recommend with some reservations.
It is a guide only and is prone to far less than 100% accuracy...so don't put your all into the results.
I have found examples of safe sites with a red rating (several years of activity on some sites should give me a clue here)..while the same goes for dangerous sites going all green (saved by another program.) Basically ok..but keep your wits about you and don't rely totally.
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