Talk:IceCat/Web of Trust - WOT

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THIS ENTRY IS BLACKLISTED

Issues

This add-on was requested for ban on the behalf of the community via the mailing list directory-discuss@gnu.org in November 2015. - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2015-11/msg00003.html

Reasons

Web Of Trust (WOT) was found guilty to spy and sell the data of it's users via a malware in it's software (malicious feature).

Thus it cannot be in the directory, but this entry should still be open so that it can be used has a warning.

After the revelations the Mozilla foundation deleted it's entry (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wot-safe-browsing-tool/) about WOT.

Articles


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