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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