Reviews for Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating
Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating by WOT Services
Review by Philip Goddard
Rated 1 out of 5
by Philip Goddard, 8 months ago(updated 6 September 2023) On the face of it, WOT is a great idea, but it wrongly gives some completely safe, authentic and trustworthy sites a poor safety rating -- two of my own sites suffering thus at the moment. For this sort of thing it's necessary for the site owner to be able to contact WOT admin directly, and not go through the cumbersome, lengthy, and indeed unreliable business of posting in the Forum to get members to review the affected site(s), or/and jump through other hoops -- but as far as I can make out, there are no such means.
Also, crowd-sourced ratings are worse than useless for giving a proper impression of validity, authenticity and overall quality of a site's contents, with regard to any subject matter about which most people hold beliefs -- such as religion, spirituality, New-Age and related areas, and indeed so-called 'mental health' (which is based in the materialistic reductionism belief system). In all such cases, the majority, belief-driven view takes priority over the more rational, objective (observation-based) view, and what the ratings are indicating is NOT any quality of the respective site contents, but simply their popularity -- which at best isn't particularly useful, and generally is seriously misleading.
One of my own sites is impacted thus, and it's galling to see so many belief-based sites (intrinsically misinformational because belief stands in the way of seeing what's really there) getting high ratings just because the respective beliefs are popular or traditional, while my own pioneering belief-free, objectively based site has only a so-so rating despite a string of very positive reviews from people who've genuinely benefited from that site.
Extrapolating from how my own sites are being treated by WOT, it's very reasonable always to be very circumspect about WOT ratings.
**Update, 6 August 2023**
I responded to the so-called Developer response to this review, with a detailed and constructive rundown on the various problems about WOT and asking for my wrongly 'usafe' and 'suspicious' rated sites to have their ratings corrected.
These people are mindbogglinly complacent and self-serving. All I got back was their standard BS line, with clear indications that this was just a pasted standard message, and one has to conclude that the contents of my message went unread.
I've therefore decreased my rating to one star.
I've tried to give WOT reasonable benefit of doubt, but they show themselves to be right out of touch with any sense of genuine human responsibility for what they're doing. Sure, it's a service, but the question is, who it's really serving. Not decent and conscientious websites and their owners, that's for sure! -- The WOT people should be hanging their heads in shame!
Also, crowd-sourced ratings are worse than useless for giving a proper impression of validity, authenticity and overall quality of a site's contents, with regard to any subject matter about which most people hold beliefs -- such as religion, spirituality, New-Age and related areas, and indeed so-called 'mental health' (which is based in the materialistic reductionism belief system). In all such cases, the majority, belief-driven view takes priority over the more rational, objective (observation-based) view, and what the ratings are indicating is NOT any quality of the respective site contents, but simply their popularity -- which at best isn't particularly useful, and generally is seriously misleading.
One of my own sites is impacted thus, and it's galling to see so many belief-based sites (intrinsically misinformational because belief stands in the way of seeing what's really there) getting high ratings just because the respective beliefs are popular or traditional, while my own pioneering belief-free, objectively based site has only a so-so rating despite a string of very positive reviews from people who've genuinely benefited from that site.
Extrapolating from how my own sites are being treated by WOT, it's very reasonable always to be very circumspect about WOT ratings.
**Update, 6 August 2023**
I responded to the so-called Developer response to this review, with a detailed and constructive rundown on the various problems about WOT and asking for my wrongly 'usafe' and 'suspicious' rated sites to have their ratings corrected.
These people are mindbogglinly complacent and self-serving. All I got back was their standard BS line, with clear indications that this was just a pasted standard message, and one has to conclude that the contents of my message went unread.
I've therefore decreased my rating to one star.
I've tried to give WOT reasonable benefit of doubt, but they show themselves to be right out of touch with any sense of genuine human responsibility for what they're doing. Sure, it's a service, but the question is, who it's really serving. Not decent and conscientious websites and their owners, that's for sure! -- The WOT people should be hanging their heads in shame!
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- Rated 5 out of 5by savoy, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Axel2503, 4 days ago
Developer response
posted 3 days agoThank you, Milad, for your thoughtful feedback! We're delighted that you appreciated our app. Should you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out at support@mywot.com- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18367347, 17 days agoОтличный сайт, очень безопасный, помогает во многих областях, всем рекомендую.
Developer response
posted 3 days agoThank you, for your thoughtful feedback! We're delighted that you appreciated our app. Should you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out at support@mywot.com Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18366372, 18 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Мария Смит, 19 days agoОн продает пользовательские данные, пожалуйста, обратите внимание и не используйте их.
Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation. Developer response
posted 3 days agoHey there, thanks for taking the time to write this review. We’re sorry to hear that. Can you please share with us exactly which points are weak at support@mywot.com so we can assist?Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoThanks! Glad to hear this is helping you improve your day to day activity. If you have ever any feedback for us, contact us at support@mywot.com.- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12703846, 20 days agoПроблема в ошибках...если только это ошибки . Где новый сайт без оснований отмечает красным , а с негативными отзывами отмечает как надежный.
Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation. Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 3 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 21 days agoWe’re sad to hear about your experience with WOT. We would love to hear more of your feedback - contact us to schedule a call and get a surprise as a token of our appreciation.Developer response
posted 21 days agoThank you, for your thoughtful feedback! We're delighted that you appreciate our app. Should you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out at support@mywot.com- Rated 1 out of 5by Carter-M, 2 months agoThis extension has been exposed for selling user data. Also their website is crumbling to dust.
- Rated 4 out of 5by User, 2 months agoAs soon as there will be more transparent and honest alternative, people will stop using WOT, but for now they are essential service. They had a tradition of rarely selling ratings to scam sites and selling personal data, but still to check balance of good deeds vs harm they are noticeably on good side. But only until transparent alternative emerges (or they dramatically improve transparency and trustworthiness and protection against fake ratings of any kind).
And for sure have a compassion - area they work is extremly hard and full of people who want to exploit. Even Google is failing lately in a holy battle against spam.
And fix my badge please, just got 1500+ points, and still no recognition! Outrageous! :)Developer response
posted 2 months agoHi there, if you are enjoying WOT, please give it a 5-star rating to support our efforts 🙂 - Rated 5 out of 5by Lover, 2 months ago