FireFox Friday – Browse Safer With WOT FireFox Add-on

Today, it being Firefox Friday and all, I want to share with you another FireFox add-on I’ve started using called “Web Of Trust” or WOT.

I don’t remember how I came across the WOT add-on, but it was probably the Google alert I set up in Google reader to alert me via RSS whenever “Firefox” shows up somewhere on the internet.  However, since I found it, I’ve fallen in love with the idea.

Basically, WOT offers website ratings to give you an idea of how trustworthy the site is before you visit it.  It rates according to the following categories: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety.  Their primary source of the ratings is from other users rating sites, however they also use other “carefully chosen” trusted sources such as PhishTank to help protect users from new, rapidly spreading threats.

Here’s a demonstration video showing how it works:

I encourage you to check out the WOT About Us page to get a better understanding of what WOT is all about, and then download the WOT add-on for Firefox and use it!

Once you have the add-on installed, learn how to rate sites and help out the system!

Common back next Friday for Firefox Friday!

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