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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by r721 on Friday November 04, 2016 @07:59AM (#12871878)
I think you can use their bookmarklet, but personally I don't see any benefits as somewhat similar Google Safe Browsing service is internally used by all major browsers.
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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by FT_intern on Friday November 04, 2016 @10:14AM (#12872684)
it was decently accurate at judging whether a random website contained "legal" downloads of books
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Re:Mozilla stops distribution of WOT addon by r721 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @09:02AM (#12879583)
Yeah, it is true that WOT is useful for some rare use cases, where it is important whether some unknown website is a scam or not, but I don't think I need it for casual browsing.
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