02 Dec 16 10:56, you wrote to me:

 ml>> WoT pulls browser extension after privacy failure

 ml>> [quote]
 ml>>     First, it seems that WoT has been collecting the browsing history
 ml>> of its millions of users and has been selling this data to third
 ml>> parties.

 EV> I removed the WOT Add-In after reading Your message last month.

 EV> I was thinking recently that "I am not all that
important", as Leo says in
 EV> some of His askleo.com articles.

as individuals, we're not really all that important... however, as a group,
we are very important... just look at what those few teenagers from veles,
macedonia did...

[quote]
Veles made international news in 2016 when it was revealed that a group of
teenagers in the town were controlling over 100 websites producing fake
news articles in support of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, which
were heavily publicised on the social media site Facebook, and may have
influenced the result of the election.
[/quote]

yes, these are one of the main groups that caught facebook out with their
fake news which facebook (and other places) latched onto as real true
news...

 EV> And am now thinking about putting WOT back in Firefox because I miss
 EV> using it to see what others say about a website that I never visited
 EV> before, before I take a look at what's on the pages on that new
 EV> website.

 EV> Did You ever use WOT? or still use it now?   Thanks!

no and no... i did use something, at one point, that showed me something
similar (pagerank by browsing habits, IIRC) but i stopped using it years
and years ago because my browsing had to be being sent to be added to the
stats for me to be able to retrieve the stats on that page... as i got more
and more into network security, i decided that the metadata of my browsing
and research was no one else's business... i won't mention how easy it is
to stack the deck in those types of services, either...

 EV> Yep! I'm paranoid about visiting unknown websites. I'll even go to
 EV> Wikipedia and Search to see if any of their pages have the URL of that
 EV> website in any Links or Articles.

paranoia is a good thing... too much? not so good... however, learning,
understanding and following a few simple rules is the best...

 EV> I also have the Add-On in Firefox for Dr. Web but haven't used it as
 EV> often as I used WOT to research a new website.

 EV> Thanks Again!    .   .

you and others are quite welcome... i really should be sharing more to this
group than i have been... it is a tad on the painful side, though, because
this is a manual thing and i can't simply forward or copy and paste easily
like i can for twitter, G+ and used to do for facebook before i reclaimed
my 6+hrs/day from them by dropping them in the bitbucket ;)


)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it wrong...
... Conform, go crazy, or become a writer.
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