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Mon, 07/28/2008 - 15:31 — cy

And I think WOT is a great security tool. It works like SiteAdvisor but uses community protection. JamesSmith

 

 

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#1Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 17:19.

I use WOT also, and though it is great, it only advises (it can't block).

I remember one time I was using both WOT and SiteAdvisor during a session. I happened to stumble onto a bad site. Though SiteAdvisor Free doesn't have active blocking, it was able to redirect me to another page, saying something in the course of: THIS IS A REALLY BAD SITE and we BLOCKED IT.

Thanks :) !! But, now, SiteAdvisor development seemst to be going slow. Doesn anyone know what's going on with them? FF3 support doesn't really work, and I'm not sure on IE8 ...

#2Submitted by cy on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 19:39.

What I am very interested in, is to find out, how deeply we can trust a service like that and how much our privacy is concerned?

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#3Submitted by Bob on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 17:35.

What's more, WOT doesn't seem to make Google temporarily freeze, as SiteAdvisor does. Its judgements appear more credible too.
One limitation though: unlike SiteAdvisor, WOT doesn't appear to provide any feedback on ones "current" browsing page.

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