Filed under: Security, Beta, Browsers
Web of Trust (WOT) extension now available for Google Chrome
Web of Trust is now onboard as well, announcing the release of their extension today. I've written about WOT before -- it's a great addition for anyone wanting a bit of added security and safety when they browse. It's listed in my 6 Windows tools to prevent PC problems on your own and 14 useful Firefox addons.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with WOT, it's a kind of community-powered rating service. Users submit trust, privacy, reliability, and child safety scores for sites they visit. When you browse a site that's in the WOT database, you'll see the result of those ratings in easy-to-understand color coding. Green is good, red is bad, yellow means exercise caution.
If you happen on a particularly bad site, WOT will block it completely and display an alert page instead and give you the choice to bail out or disregard the warning and continue.
The WOT .crx extension for Chrome can be downloaded from the Wiki, though it's a bit hidden in all the text. Here's a direct download link to make things easier for you. Like other recent extensions, you'll need to be running Chrome's developer channel build to use WOT.
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Kris120890 said 6:17PM on 10-08-2009
When did adblock move to Firefox are these only available to the nightly builds.
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Kris120890 said 6:26PM on 10-08-2009
Did you mean adsweep.
Lee Mathews said 6:27PM on 10-08-2009
Right you are. Thanks, Kris!
Kris120890 said 6:31PM on 10-08-2009
You got my hopes up. I really thought adblock had been ported over. Adsweep isn't quite as good in my opinion.
MarkyB86 said 7:39PM on 10-08-2009
WOT is shutting down at the end of the year I thought?
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Saint Seminole said 12:35AM on 10-09-2009
Last paragraph says it all. Roughly translated: "None of these extensions are available for the actual Chrome browser, but instead are for the newest browser builds that Google isn't sure about yet, or they would have released it to the public."
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kai said 6:39PM on 10-09-2009
"WOT is shutting down at the end of the year I thought?"
As a longtime reader of their blog, I haven't seen such announcement. Maybe you got some wrong info from elsewhere?
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kai said 6:50PM on 10-09-2009
@MarkyB86: Ok, I did a bit of research and we're talking about different things.
You're referring to Thawte's web of trust (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7306)
but here we're talking about http://www.mywot.com/
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