Chrome-Stats extension
Compare Chrome extensions: WOT: Website Security & Safety Checker vs Privacy Badger
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WOT: Website Security & Safety Checker
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Privacy Badger
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| User count | 900,000+ | 1,000,000+ |
| Average rating | 4.47 | 4.42 |
| Rating count | 10,541 | 1,714 |
| Last updated | 2024-04-07 | 2024-02-06 |
| Size | 5.86M | 1.90M |
| Version | 5.5.2 | 2024.2.6 |
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| Stay safe online with WOT, the ultimate website security and safety check extension | Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. |
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Stay safe online with WOT, the ultimate website safety checker. Check website security easily 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 such as our website safety checker, anti-phishing alerts, identity theft protection and more. WOT is the #1 solution for website security, website safety and online safety. Our Safety Features Include: *Website Safety Checker Get alerted if a website you’re about to visit is harmful or suspicious with our website safety and website security checker *Anti-Phishing Receive warnings if you get an email that contains suspicious or harmful links |
Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal to tell companies not to track you. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger will learn to block them. Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful trackers (video players, comments widgets, etc.) with click-to-activate placeholders, and removes outgoing link click tracking on Facebook and Google, with more privacy protections on the way. To learn more, see our FAQ at https://privacybadger.org/#faq To get help or to report bugs, please email [email protected]. If you have a GitHub account, you can use our GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues *** Why does Privacy Badger need to read and change all my data on the websites I visit? *** When you install Privacy Badger, your browser warns that Privacy Badger can “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”. You are right to be alarmed. You should only install extensions made by organizations you trust. Privacy Badger requires these permissions to do its job of automatically detecting and blocking trackers on all websites you visit. We are not ironically (or unironically) spying on you. For more information, see our Privacy Badger extension permissions explainer: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/permissions.md Note that the extension permissions warnings only cover what the extension has access to, not what the extension actually does with what it has access to (such as whether the extension secretly uploads your browsing data to its servers). Privacy Badger will never share data about your browsing unless you choose to share it (by filing a broken site report). For more information, see EFF’s Privacy Policy for Software: https://www.eff.org/code/privacy/policy |