A browser extension providing website reputation ratings and warnings to help users avoid malicious sites, using crowd-sourced ratings and reviews.
WOT Web of Trust is a browser extension available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and Edge that helps protect users from fraudulent and malicious websites. It shows a website's trust rating right next to search results in major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
The ratings are crowdsourced from a global community of millions of users who rate and review websites based on their personal experiences. Ratings range from poor to excellent based on factors like trustworthiness, privacy, child safety, and how well a site keeps promises and commitments.
In addition to showing reputation ratings, WOT also displays warnings if a site is known to have poor ratings or contains threats like malware, spam, scamming, or phishing. This allows users to make informed decisions before visiting unfamiliar sites.
Some key features of WOT Web of Trust include:
- Color-coded website reputations based on crowdsourced reviews
- Easy-to-interpret scales for Website Trust, Vendor Reliability, Privacy, and Child Safety
- Browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Edge
- Warnings for malicious, scam, phishing, and questionable websites
- Options to submit your own website reviews and ratings
With over 200 million users, WOT aims to promote online transparency, safety, and informed choices. It encourages community collaboration to identify both good and bad actors on the internet.