WOT: Website Security & Safety Checker

WOT uses unethical fear tactics to get people to pay them. I've been in IT since 1995 and WOT has been part of my toolkit for many years for my non-tech savvy customers, I'd often recommend it to people. No longer. The final straw was today when I got word that a family member's gmail inbox was showing a banner that said "Your personal data is not protected. This puts you at risk of phishing, financial fraud and identity theft. You should act now!" with two options - "Activate Protection" or... Show more

so when you uninstall and click "it's not free" as an option, the feedback is that "it is free" with an optional premium package. to be entirely honest, it's a pet peeve of mine when something is advertised as free but everything is a premium feature. when you first install it, there's a couple steps before you go to the main dashboard, and after one of them, the only way to continue that i saw is to click a free trial button which is also weird. i get that generally the website blocking an... Show more

Haven't had any security warnings for any dodgy pages and have tried to find some. It used to be a great plugin but the time has come to finally get rid and find something new. I have so much free opensource protection blocking malware and malicious domains and IP addresses that this plugin is basically useless to me now. I have installed TrafficLight to at least have a warning symbol in the toolbar that doesn't ask for money every time I click it. Shame, I used to love WOT and recommended it... Show more