WOT Website Security & Privacy Protection
Stay safe while browsing the web with WOT, the best multi-platform security service with real-time alerts.
What is WOT Website Security & Privacy Protection?
WOT Website Security & Privacy Protection is a popular Chrome extension by mywot.com. This extension has 996,183 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.48, and is most similar to Dr.Web Link Checker and TrafficLight. The latest version, 5.0.1, was updated 5 days ago.
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- tabs
- contextMenus
- webNavigation
- webRequest
- declarativeNetRequest
- declarativeNetRequestFeedback
- storage
- scripting
- alarms
- http://www.mywot.com/*
- http://api.mywot.com/*
- https://api.mywot.com/*
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
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Summary
Website security and safety is easy with the WOT Chrome Extension. Just like how we take steps to protect ourselves in the physical world, it's important to protect ourselves in the digital world as well. Which is why we’ve developed features like our website safety checker, anti-phishing alerts, identity theft protection and more. WOT is the #1 solution for website security and online safety. Our Safety Features Include: *Website Safety Checks Get alerted if a website you’re about to visit is harmful or suspicious with our website safety checks *Anti-Phishing Receive warnings if you get an email that contains suspicious or harmful links *Data Breach Monitoring
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Provides useful WOT rankings while surfing the net
- Helpful for identifying safe and harmful sites
- Good for warning about known dangerous websites
Cons
- Pushes paid subscription models and advertise heavily
- Not effective in flagging newer phishing sites
- Community reputation model can breakdown in controversial sites
Most mentioned
- Pushes paid subscription models and has dubious security scans to sell subscriptions
- Provides useful WOT rankings while surfing the net
- Helpful for identifying safe and harmful sites
- Not effective in flagging newer phishing sites
Safety
Risk impact
WOT Website Security & Privacy Protection requires a lot of risky permissions and is not safe to use. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypass your security settings, and access your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.
Risk likelihood
WOT Website Security & Privacy Protection has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension, especially ones with higher risk impact and/or higher risk likelihood.
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